Jonathan Geltner

Our Lady of the Sign

Fiction

“The achievement of this novel is to combine two archaic kinds of story, the psychomachia, or spiritual battle, and the nostos, or homecoming. Our heroine, ‘questing for a quest’, discovers that true questing does not conclude but renders one ‘open to the mystery’ of the whole of creation. I cannot imagine a more perfectly paced and focused tale of the terrible and beautiful ordeal of truly learning to see and honestly face that creation—inward and outward, from the farthest star to the deepest, most veiled memory—just before it is too late, when the stakes could not be higher.”