Glenn Yocum

Renunciation

Fiction

“Renunciation is, on the one hand, primarily a novel of ideas--and they are ideas that will resonate in the minds of nearly all of us who teach religious studies or theology in contemporary North America. But on the other hand, Renunciation is also the account of an emotional drama focused on how differing religious experiences and understandings of religion play out in family interactions and in the minds of two religiously sensitive but very different siblings. The narrator's voice is usually calm, measured, and articulate. But there is also real emotional conflict here and a murder mystery at the end that propels the novel's plot.”