Angel and Apostle

Angel and Apostle
Deborah Noyes

Don’t you just love it when you pick a book up from the “new in paperback” table at your local independent bookseller and you actually love it? That’s what happened for me with Deborah Noyes’ well-crafted piece of literary fiction, Angel and ApostleThe Scarlet Letter leaves off, Noyes follows the life of fatherless Pearl who has immigrated with her mother to the New World. In the hands of many writers this would turn into a soulless gimmick, but under Noyes’ fine hand Pearl’s story unfolds in a believable, tragic, beautiful way. Touching on themes of righteousness and redemption, social norms and cultural vices, Angel and Apostle woos you with its beautiful language and snags you with its philosophical subplots. It’s the kind of satisfying novel that you can read for the shear beauty of the words, or carefully savor the ideas that cocooned within the broader brush strokes of the story. Even those who have never read The Scarlet Letter can appreciate this lovely novel.

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