![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This conversation between McDermott and her friend yields to an exploration of how the sacramental imagination plays out in her storytelling. She starts by using the way a novel “happens,” between novelist, narrator, and reader, to explain to a student friend the three-in-one nature of the Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – which reminds me, by the way, of Dorothy Sayer’s comparison of the Trinity to the writing process in Mind of the Maker. I bring this quote up here now because McDermott has a wonderful piece in the current issue of Boston College Magazine, which arrived in the mail just before Christmas: “Astonished by Love: Storytelling and the Sacramental Imagination.” You can read the essay here online. “It almost makes you wonder what else you don’t know about yet.” I love that. Isn’t that something? I had no idea those places were out here… It almost makes you wonder what else you don’t know about yet.” “I never knew,” Billy said, “I never knew what it was like out here…. Billy is overwhelmed by the beauty of it. The book’s main character, Billy, gets out of New York City for probably the first time in his life and sees the ocean and beautiful houses and the black starry sky of Long Island. There’s a great scene in the book Charming Billy by Alice McDermott that I used to always mention when I gave talks related to Just Think. ![]()
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