“In the end, it is not Annie’s eyes, or brain or mouth that brings her story over the finish line with grace and power and love… it is her heart. Hicks bares Annie’s heart again and again and again and in doing so, the reader’s as well.
It’s f@#$% brilliant!”
–Lance Mason, Writer
A Theory of Expanded Love is a coming-of-age story of tradition and redemption about a feisty adolescent, on the cusp of her teen years in a huge, noisy catholic family.
When the Pope dies, and a family friend is short-listed to become the first American pope, Annie creates a hilarious campaign of lies to increase the heavenward status of herself and her family, but soon is haunted by her own dishonesty.
When she discovers a wedding photograph of her mother next to a soldier who is not her father, when ‘The Hands’ visit her at night, as her sister faces a scandal, Annie realizes her parents will do almost anything to maintain their reputation in the parish.
Questioning all she has been taught, and torn between her own gut instinct and years of Catholic guilt, Annie takes courageous risks to wrest salvation from the sequence of events set in motion by her parents’ betrayal.
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