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father meme
p father meme a sleazy priest abused three altar boys at the indian mission church of the snow located on an indian reservation in northern minnesota . p the sexual abuse evolves at the mission at saint johns abbey and on a houseboat at lake namakan in the voyageurs national park . the altar boys refuse to be victims and stage various strategies of resistance simultaneously ironic tricky and grisly including the fourteen torments founded on the stations of the cross . father meme is justly sacrificed by the altar boys in a winter fish house on wiindigoo lake . p this modern fable of wicked priests sin sacrifice and survivance is told to a visiting lawyer and cultural historian from france a bygone association of the fur trade and the anishinaabe or chippewa indians of the great lakes . p father meme is a singular memorable novel that confronts clerical sexual abuse and denounces the reluctance of the catholic church to punish pedophile priests . br p the benedictine monks at saint johns abbey first touched my heart by choral music and then the priest silenced me by his greedy touch and sexual abuse . from father meme
hardcover university of new mexico press 2008 isbn13 9780826345158 isbn10 0826345158
abridged n isbn 13 9780826345158 number in series 1 number of pages 120 publisher univ of new mexico pr release date 62135769600000