QUERY BOOK CLUB
Query is a monthly book club for LGBTQIA+ individuals and friends. Join us for a beer, pizza and book discussion at the Front Street Taproom.
We will meet next on Tuesday, June 25, 5:30-7 p.m. This month’s book is The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves: A Novel by James Han Mattson.* Please contact Pastor Joe or Tammy Jackson Lanaghan for more information. See below for more information on the book and for a link to Amazon for purchase.
*A book read and discussion with James Han Mattson will be held at Zanbroz in Fargo on July 10, 2019, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
We will meet next on Tuesday, June 25, 5:30-7 p.m. This month’s book is The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves: A Novel by James Han Mattson.* Please contact Pastor Joe or Tammy Jackson Lanaghan for more information. See below for more information on the book and for a link to Amazon for purchase.
*A book read and discussion with James Han Mattson will be held at Zanbroz in Fargo on July 10, 2019, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Front Street Taproom: 614 Main Avenue in Fargo, North Dakota
The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves: A Novel
by James Han Mattson
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In raw, poignant alternating first-person narratives, interspersed with e-mails, gay chat-room exchanges, and other fragments of a youth laid bare in the age of social media, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves unravels the mystery of a life in all its glory: despair and regret, humor and wonder, courage and connection.
A heartbroken and humiliated Ricky Graves took the life of a classmate and himself. Five months later, the sleepy community is still in shock and mourning. Ricky’s sister, Alyssa, returns to confront her shattered, withdrawn mother and her guilt over the brother she left adrift. Mark McVitry, the lone survivor of the deadly outburst sparked by his own cruelty, is tormented by visions of Ricky’s vengeful spirit. Ricky’s surrogate older brother, Corky Meeks, grapples with doubts about the fragile boy he tried to protect but may have doomed instead. And Jeremy Little, who inadvertently became Ricky’s long-distance Internet crush despite never having met, seeks to atone for failing to hear his friend’s cries for help. For those closest to the tormented killer, shock and grief have given way to soul searching, as they’re forced to confront their broken dreams, buried desires, and missed opportunities. And in their shared search for meaning and redemption, Ricky’s loved ones find a common purpose: learning to trust their feelings, fighting for real intimacy in a world grown selfish and insincere, and fearlessly embracing all that matters most…before it’s gone from their lives. |
