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After nearly ten years, Joseph Caldwell results to the literary picture with a rich novel of huge and resonant range. With Dostoevskyian ambition, Loaf of bread for the Baker's Child models out to probe the top questions of good and evil, culpability and sacrifice, and the meaning of suffering. On this story of two lives immutably intertwined, Sister Rachel is a nun in a declining order, a painter with a history of madness, devoted to her dying Mother General. Her brother Phillip is an accountant offering time for embezzlement, a guy capable of great violence and anger who may have turned his backside not only on the cathedral, but trust as well. They may have nothing in common aside from a shared child years tragedy. Or do they? On this masterful display of structural accuracy, Caldwell gradually unravels the complementary dynamics of these two lives - at first glance hermetically sealed from one another - until their shared destiny becomes a symbiotic relationship, as though they were two edges of the same gold coin, intersecting and reflecting each other. Through occurrences operatic in shade and reach, Rachel and Phillip come to redefine our notions of love and kinship, and embody the human need for redemption and forgiveness.
