TheReverend Sarah Obadias is broken, bitter, and stripped of the reassurance offaith when she walks into a West Village restaurant in Manhattan. Here sheencounters Abraham Darby, a rumpled but well-regarded painter who seduces theminister into his life of excess and emotional intensity. “I’ve run away frommy life,” Sarah tells him. “I know,” Darby replies. “Take mine.” But for Sarah, each day with the artist will bring a new reality-or lack of it.
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