Imagining an American apparition.(Our Lady of the Forest)(Book Review) From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: February 6, 2004| Author: Ryan, Antonia | COPYRIGHT 2004 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

OUR LADY OF THE FOREST By David Guterson Knopf, 318 pages, $25.95

In Our Lady of the Forest, his third novel, David Guterson explores what the Marian apparitions at Lourdes might have been like if they had happened in America at the turn of the 21st century Some of the same questions arise: Is the seer telling the truth? Is she crazy? Why would Mary appear to a lowly "undesirable"? And how do the faithful react to news that someone is claiming to speak for God's mother? ...

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