The story still had a long way to go. There was no labyrinth of suffering in the manuscript that Julie first read, and no Great Perhaps. This novel tell about love and suffering and forgiveness, a novel of what in the study of religion is called “radical hope,” the idea that hope is available to all of us at all times, even unto and after death. It was because her parents welcomed me home, because portrayed mental illness as more than merely tragic, because Ilene and Julie believed in my work and devoted years to this novel, and because readers have looked upon it with generosity and forgiven its many flaws.
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