Tiffany Eberle Kriner is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College and the author of The Future of the Word: An Eschatology of Reading (Fortress, 2014). She also works in silvopasturing at Root and Sky Farm in Marengo, IL.
Much of the novel reads like this sentence—the internal struggle of someone who wants—not forgiveness, nor salvation, really, but rather to not need to be forgiven, to not require salvation nor redemption, to maintain what dignity is possible, given irremediable forsakenness.
