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The Bells
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781636283623
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
AUTHOR OF LIVID - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MISSOURI REVIEW EDITORS PRIZE, THE SARTON AWARD, AND THE NAUTILUS AWARD
Cai Emmons awes readers with the release of THE BELLS
An immersive psychological portrait of one man's battle with lifelong anger and guilt.-Kirkus Reviews
A book Cai finished on the day she died, is a story of life: how to live fully, embrace our messy complications, and swim toward love.-Miriam Gershow, author of Closer and Survival Tips: Stories Thirty-three-year-old Niall O'Malley has failed a five-year mission to live as a monk and is attempting to redefine himself as a high school teacher in New Jersey.
As The Bells opens, thirty-three-year-old Niall O'Malley has failed a five-year mission to live as a monk and is attempting to redefine himself as a high school teacher in New Jersey. The transition has been bumpy. He loves teaching history to inner city teens, but he hits a roadblock when a belligerent student, Colton, possibly a white-supremacist, behaves in ways that threaten Niall. As troubles mount at school, Niall's girlfriend Lluvia pressures him into making a deeper commitment to their relationship. She wants them to move in together with Lluvia's pre-teen daughter and elderly mother.Haunted by his failure as a Cistercian monk and his troubles with one man in particular, the abusive Brother Thomas, Niall abandons Lluvia and heads back to his old monastery in Massachusetts for a final showdown with Thomas, now dying of ALS. Redemption for Niall is elusive as he strives to mend his faith.
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