Unworthy

by Antonio Monda

Abram Singer is a Catholic priest with an unusual name and a dark secret. Against the backdrop of gritty 1970s New York, in a simple, straightforward style, he tells us his story. The son of an absent Jewish father and a devout Italian mother, Abram was drawn to the meaningful structure of the seminary, eventually becoming a parish priest in Manhattan. His sincerest wish is to do God's work, but he is not without human failings: he is irresistibly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385542941
• ISBN13: 9780385542944
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.6" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Disappointing

This novel disappointed me in two important regards. First, the structure was unclear, merely meanderings with only vague groundings in time. The narrative did not begin to develop a direction until half-way through. There was simply a great deal of disparaging of the narrator for his many failings. I feel that the issue could be resolved by his finding a different version of Christianity to minister for. It's similar to the conflict in the play The Christians, in which the crux of the matter could be relatively easily resolved by the hero's simply changing his church to one more liberal and compassionate than his present evangelical one. My second issue with "Unworthy" is the lack of development in the hero's character, something that seems critical for such a confessional sort of fiction.