JANUARY BOOK DISCUSSION
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY BY JOHN IRVING
Hosted by ChristyA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of
his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even
because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is
the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are
playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire.
One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother.
The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany
believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953
foul ball is extraordinary.
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