This ended up on my reading list because I'd seen it go on the public domain. The summary sounded interesting. There will be spoilers in this review. It's something of a short book, and I have a few choice words for it.
When the bridge collapses, five lives are snuffed out. The priest that witnesses the event goes on a mission to try and explain if there was a specific reason God let that happen to those specific people. What follows is the story of three and a half people. One is a clingy mother and her maid(?), another is 1/2 of twins, and the last one is a weird guy who guilt trips a longtime "friend" to let her sickly son accompany him to Lima (this takes place in Peru). Later, the priest also had a system where he was evaluating parishioners on their value, and he's eventually put to death for heresy.
This book was so weird. Half the time, the text wasn't even focusing on the person the priest was researching. I read so much about the other twin and the girl the weird guy was obsessed with. It was just odd. And the idea that any kind of explanation to a random tragedy would result from exploring people's backgrounds is just ridiculous. The priest thought that a bridge collapse was a more controlled tragedy than other types of deaths. Umm, ok. Things like that aren't "controlled" more than anything else. It happened when the structure gave out. The whole book was just weird. At least it was short.
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