• The Dearly Beloved

• A Novel
• By: Cara Wall
• Narrated by: Kathy Keane

This “moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become co-pastors at a famed New York city congregation in the 1960s.

Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They met in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James were both hired to manage the historic Third Presbyterian Church during turbulent times. However, their individual differences threaten to divide them.

Charles was destined to succeed his father as a respected history professor at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture on the faith led him to the ministry. Then how could he love Lily – fiercely intellectual, sternly elegant – after she had told him with certainty that she would never believe in God? However, how could he not?

James, the youngest son of a harsh Chicago family, spent most of his youth angry at his alcoholic father and hiding from his anxious mother. Nan grew up in Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a pastor and a novice. James’s escape from desperate circumstances leads him to Nan, and despite his skepticism about hope in any form, her gentle, unwavering faith changes his life.

In The Dearly Beloved, Cara Wall reminds us of “the power of the novel in its simplest, richest form: bearing intimate witness to human beings grappling with their faith and falling in love” (Entertainment Weekly, A-) as we follow these two couples through decades of love and friendship, jealousy and understanding, forgiveness and commitment. Against the backdrop of the tumultuous changes facing the city and the congregation of the church, Wall offers a poignant reflection on faith and reason, marriage and children, and how we find ourselves. meaning in his life. The Dearly Beloved is a beautiful, wise, and provocative novel destined to become a classic.

I love this story. The characters leapt off the page. Their struggles seem real and clearly echo the difficulty of having faith in a world of tragedy and difficulty. This engaging novel illuminates. the difficulty of going through this world alone and the comfort they can come from being bonded to one another.

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