![]() ![]() While writing about this, Everett begins an affair with a woman named Moira and fictionalizes their experience, spinning it into an overwrought melodrama of a controlling and obsessive man. All of this action is related through Everett’s fiction, culminating in the moment when the cross is found again on the rooftop of Sarah Blumenthal and Joshua Gruen, people who run a small radical synagogue practicing what they call Experimental Judaism. When the cross at his church is stolen, he takes it upon himself to find out what happened to it. Pem is an Episcopal priest whose congregation is flagging and who is in trouble with church leadership over a crisis of faith. The book begins with Everett writing about his friend Thomas Pemberton as though he is a spiritual detective. ![]() ![]() The book alternates between Everett’s fictional recreations of the events of the plot alongside conversations he has with two additional main characters, Thomas Pemberton and Sarah Blumenthal, and a few others figures. City of God’s fragmented sections come from the writer’s notebook of Everett, one of the main characters of the book and a loose representation of E. ![]()
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