Ordinary Grace

'The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.' - Blaise Pascal. (from the opening of Ordinary Grace) William Kent Krueger's coming of age novel consumes only the course of a single Minnesota summer, but in its pages we are treated to an amazingly rich and diverse cast of characters. Each growing and blossoming before our eyes. I found myself highlighting truths and scraps of wisdom that I did not want to vanish. From the first line of the prologue 'All the dying of that summer began with the death of a child', I was hooked. This is indeed a story of No 'ordinary grace', but rather an affirming of the human spirit to forgive and to deal with tragedy unspeakable.