Donna Spector is a playwright, novelist and poet. Her plays have appeared Off Broadway, regionally and in Canada, Ireland and Greece. Her play Golden Ladder was published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2002 (Smith & Kraus) Winner of the Masters Poetry Prize and a member of Dramatists Guild and Poets & Writers, she received two National Endowment for the Humanities grants to study in Greece. Her poetry book, The Woman Who Married Herself, was published by Evening Street Press as a Sinclair Poetry Prize finalist. The Candle of God was nominated for the Pushcart Editors’ Book Award.
The Candle of God
by Donna Spector
The Candle of God
by Donna Spector
Published May 23, 2012
265 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Literary
Book Details
Can faith healing save a dying boy
Struggling with cystic fibrosis, fourteen-year-old Danny searches for clues about his missing father. Danny’s illness attracts an unlikely retinue from California to Arizona—his eccentric, divisive Jewish family; his rambunctious Gentile cousins; two prostitutes in downtown L.A.; a motorcycle gang called the Prickly Pears; an ex-rabbi; psychics, various, bizarre faith healers and Danny’s dead grandfather. All—including Earl, head of the Tucson Atheist Society, and the man Danny mistakenly believes is his father, and Clyde, a faith healer who is Danny’s real father—are connected with Danny’s destiny, culminating in a grand, Pasadena faith healing.