Shelf life: Looking at secular books

Sarah Allen  |  Features  |  Secular Shelf Life
Date posted:  1 Sep 2007
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THE MIRACLE LIFE OF EDGAR MINT
By Brady Udall
Jonathan Cape. 432 pages. £10.00
ISBN 978-0-37571-918-9

‘I guess I write about God because God is in our lives, whether we want him there or not.’ So said Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, and in this, his first novel, he writes about providence, faith, and forgiveness.

An eight-year-old boy has his head run over by the mailman. He survives and so begins the miracle life of Edgar Mint, a half-Apache, half-abandoned child living in the blistering desert of Arizona.

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