Fiction: Alice McDermott’s ‘Absolution’

In 1963, Alice McDermott reminds us in her novel “Absolution,” both the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and the president of Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, were Catholics. This fact holds a holy significance for the engineer and military consultant Peter Kelly and his wife, Patricia,…

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