Bread for the Baker's Child

by Joseph Caldwell

In this tale of two lives immutably intertwined, Sister Rachel is a nun in a failing order, a painter with a history of madness, devoted to her dying Mother General. Her brother Phillip is an accountant serving time for embezzlement, a man capable of great violence and anger who has turned his back not simply on the church, but faith as well. They have nothing in common except for a shared childhood tragedy. Or do they?

Genres: Fiction

284 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

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A playwright and novelist whose books include The Pig Did It, The Pig Comes to Dinner, and The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven, Joseph Caldwell has been awarded the Rome Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City and is working on various post-Pig writing projects.

Reviews

[Katherine · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't get the allegories and symbols and conflict between good and evil..........too theoretical for me.
Even the story part didn't track.