![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jana Riess-Author of ‘Flunking Sainthood’ and ‘The Twible’ ![]() Gilda Trillim is a complex, delightful character who calls forth the very best in human (and rodent) nature. This quixotic novel may well be one of the best stories ever to emerge from the Mormon imagination. Carol Lynn Pearson-Poet, and author of ‘The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men’ I really don’t think Gilda is fiction, for I fell in love with her, and as she and I both know, love is stunningly real. Follow Gilda as she struggles to comprehend the meaning of life in this uncanny, philosophical novel which explores Mormonism, spirituality and what it means to be human.īeautifully bizarre! I could not have taken this dizzying journey except for a master hand leading me through the surprising giggles into the even more surprising blessings of grace, wisdom and healing. Peck’s intriguing, literary narrative follows Gilda Trillim’s many adventures from her origins on a potato farm in Idaho, to an Orthodox Convent in the Soviet Union, to her life as a badminton champion… When Gilda is taken prisoner during the Vietnam war, she finds comfort in the company of the rats who cohabit her cell. ![]()
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