Holy communion

Holy Communion is a rite-of-passage novel that follows a seven-year-old boy's first communion preparations and celebration. Throughout the four-day period the boy deals with cruel nuns, sadistic babysitters, his mother's unfortunate accident, a drunken father, plus a pedophile or two, but finds a way to cope in the midst of so much tragedy-first by indifference, later by defiance and rebellion. He...