Patrick David Heery

Earning Innocence

Fiction

“Stunningly intimate, Earning Innocence makes poetry of the undramatic life of ministry, fatherhood, and marriage. It doesn't simply reveal life; it allows it to sing, no more so than in its notes of loss and grief. Rendered simply and without ostentation, Taylor-Troutman's words captivated me. I read them all in one sitting. And afterward, after I had cried and laughed, I felt a bit like the boy in the book who falls before the cross and wails--and wakes to feel cleansed.”