The Unspeakable

by Charles Laird Calia

Father Peter Whitmore is sent to investigate a priest named Jim Marbury, who reportedly has the power to heal, and who turns out to be his old friend and seminary roommate. Marbury is now mute, his voice stolen by God, and has been irrevocably changed by mysterious events that no one witnessed but himself. And Whitmore finds himself drawn into Marbury's mystical world in spite of himself.

Editions of The Unspeakable

	ISBN 9780688151195	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 1998	Price $1.00	Very Good
	ISBN 9780688167103	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Used - Good

Publisher Notes

The Unspeakable tells the story of two men, both priests, whose strange and divergent paths collide. Peter Whitmore, an administrator for the Diocese of St. Paul, is asked to investigate and ultimately discredit a priest who, it is rumored, possesses a remarkable power -- the power to heal. The priest in question, Jim Marbury, is no stranger to Whitmore. He is an old friend, a seminary roommate, and a spiritual mentor whom Whitmore has not seen in more than twenty years. But much has changed. Always somewhat unconventional, Marbury is now mute, speaking only in sign language, his voice reportedly stolen by God on a trip that he took through western Pennsylvania. On that same journey, in a snowstorm that nobody can verify, Marbury encountered a terrible car accident and a family who changed his life irrevocably. Marbury gets drawn into a world he did not expect -- a world where the past repeats itself, where the mystical is not in a book but alive and breathing. And now Whitmore, his old friend, has to decide for himself which events are really the hand of God and which are the delusions of Marbury gone mad.

Media Reviews

"However strained allegorically, Calia plays mainly to his strengths in giving both his characters personal history and depth enough to make--and keep--them human and real."

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