At the Edge Virginia Fortner 9781468552065 Books
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Preacher-fugitive from his Kansas congregation and his faith, Ed returns to the Bitterroot Mountains, sets up camp, and takes a new identity above the Clark Fork River. No accusations. No temptations. No abuse. He keeps to himself, makes camp safe from bears and rain, but his inner life turns to disturbing flashbacks and nightmares. With unexpected help from unexplained visitors and a strange girl whose hot tub sits below the edge of his cliff, he begins to confront his past and finds whether he can find a home with Nature and himself.
At the Edge Virginia Fortner 9781468552065 Books
The first reading of Virginia Fortner's "At the Edge" brings you from Kansas to a small mining town in the Bitterroot Mountains where Pastor Ed grew up. Fleeing from the Kansas congregation whose children he has defiled, Ed struggles up a steep cliff in the rugged mountains to a green place where he can, perhaps undetected, camp.Fortner swiftly paints the deep flaws in a man who abandoned two loving parents because they are too poor to buy him the car he thinks he deserves; he runs out over and over again from people whose lives he messes up; he steals from the Kansas congregation after fornicating for three or more years (since she was 13) with one girl and "playing" sexual games with the other children entrusted to his pastoral care. The picture, sadly, is not over-drawn; read about Ed, it seems, in each day's news.
Yet from the beginning, Ed experiences the guardianship of the deer of the Bitterroot; he meets two radiant beings; he wins $800 in a casino; his neighbor is a beautiful 25 year-old given to following a hot tub with naked meditation. From Lisa, Ed learns some of the Hindu beliefs about our nature, the Kundalini serpent and Brahma; from a Mexican family, the profound belief in the mediation of Christ and the protection of the Father; and he is granted an intensive spiritual experience in a Native American ceremony. He finds a job in a stone-quarry; he comforts a father whose son may have drowned; and in the last chapter, the father's church welcomes Ed as a hero after the son returns.
The writing is excellent, the action swift, the situation and the people make this truly a page turner.
The second reading and the third suggest Fortner is engaged with the two big questions:
1. Can a man (or a woman) who behaves horribly be redeemed? Pedophilia is among the most devastating of crimes and the most resistant to change. Ed shows little remorse or insight. His Uncle sexually assaulted him when he was in his teens, but Ed remembers he kept coming back for more. Sallieann? After a nightmare about her dying in childbirth, Ed reflects, "...the little vixen probably has enticed several unsuspecting boys---maybe other men---into their shiny automobile's back seat. Seduction takes two, and she certainly did her part." (p. 43) Not a nice man, Ed. Even so, is redemption possible?
2. How may redemption come about? Prayer and penitence? If these are not achieved, through grace? Through any of the paths the great & ancient faiths show us? And how do we know we, or anyone else, is really a better person, with a pedophilia as deep as Ed's?
Fortner has titled her book well: "At the Edge." Ed is at an edge, on one side the fall of man indeed down the brutal slopes of the Bitterroots and on the other, reaching a safer place, green and more innocent. This is a book to think about, not
simplistic but richly challenging, asking the important big questions and giving scope for considering what Fortner's answers are------and what are yours, mine, and ours.
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At the Edge Virginia Fortner 9781468552065 Books Reviews
The first reading of Virginia Fortner's "At the Edge" brings you from Kansas to a small mining town in the Bitterroot Mountains where Pastor Ed grew up. Fleeing from the Kansas congregation whose children he has defiled, Ed struggles up a steep cliff in the rugged mountains to a green place where he can, perhaps undetected, camp.
Fortner swiftly paints the deep flaws in a man who abandoned two loving parents because they are too poor to buy him the car he thinks he deserves; he runs out over and over again from people whose lives he messes up; he steals from the Kansas congregation after fornicating for three or more years (since she was 13) with one girl and "playing" sexual games with the other children entrusted to his pastoral care. The picture, sadly, is not over-drawn; read about Ed, it seems, in each day's news.
Yet from the beginning, Ed experiences the guardianship of the deer of the Bitterroot; he meets two radiant beings; he wins $800 in a casino; his neighbor is a beautiful 25 year-old given to following a hot tub with naked meditation. From Lisa, Ed learns some of the Hindu beliefs about our nature, the Kundalini serpent and Brahma; from a Mexican family, the profound belief in the mediation of Christ and the protection of the Father; and he is granted an intensive spiritual experience in a Native American ceremony. He finds a job in a stone-quarry; he comforts a father whose son may have drowned; and in the last chapter, the father's church welcomes Ed as a hero after the son returns.
The writing is excellent, the action swift, the situation and the people make this truly a page turner.
The second reading and the third suggest Fortner is engaged with the two big questions
1. Can a man (or a woman) who behaves horribly be redeemed? Pedophilia is among the most devastating of crimes and the most resistant to change. Ed shows little remorse or insight. His Uncle sexually assaulted him when he was in his teens, but Ed remembers he kept coming back for more. Sallieann? After a nightmare about her dying in childbirth, Ed reflects, "...the little vixen probably has enticed several unsuspecting boys---maybe other men---into their shiny automobile's back seat. Seduction takes two, and she certainly did her part." (p. 43) Not a nice man, Ed. Even so, is redemption possible?
2. How may redemption come about? Prayer and penitence? If these are not achieved, through grace? Through any of the paths the great & ancient faiths show us? And how do we know we, or anyone else, is really a better person, with a pedophilia as deep as Ed's?
Fortner has titled her book well "At the Edge." Ed is at an edge, on one side the fall of man indeed down the brutal slopes of the Bitterroots and on the other, reaching a safer place, green and more innocent. This is a book to think about, not
simplistic but richly challenging, asking the important big questions and giving scope for considering what Fortner's answers are------and what are yours, mine, and ours.
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