![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The police round up Corrigan’s local prostitutes, and he goes to court with them. On the way back, he and Jazzlyn, one of the streetwalkers, are killed in a car crash.Ĭhapter Two shifts the setting and cast of characters. Claire is hosting a breakfast gathering at her posh apartment on Park Avenue for a group of mothers who have all lost sons in the Vietnam War. Claire’s favorite in the group is Gloria, a black woman who lives in the South Bronx project where Corrigan resides. He eventually drops out of the seminary and instead joins an order of monks in Belgium. The Order assigns him to work and live in New York City.Ĭorrigan’s brother, Ciaran, is wounded in an IRA bombing in Dublin and decides to join his brother in America. He arrives in New York to find Corrigan living in a housing project in the South Bronx where his ministry centers on local prostitutes and the elderly in a nearby nursing home. Corrigan’s life is complicated by his growing affection for Adelita, a nurse at the nursing home, and his vows to God to live in poverty, chastity, and obedience. After their mother’s death, Corrigan begins studying for the priesthood. Their father abandoned the family years ago. In the first chapter, the scene shifts to Dublin, Ireland. There, two brothers, John Andrew Corrigan, called Corrigan, and Ciaran, live with their mother. ![]()
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