A stirring story of a man who, to his intense chagrin, discovers his fallibility. Preaching against what he sees as the hedonism of the 1960s, Bishop Ashworth suddenly experiences a crisis of faith when his wife dies. He quickly sees that his strict morality is only a façade. Spiraling downwards, Ashworth knows he must find his way out of the maze of his own psyche. "Powerful... miraculous."—Booklist