This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Dena Hunt’s book, “The Lion’s Heart.” In 2016 it received both the CWG Seal of Approval and the CALA award! Is love ever wrong? Paul Meyer has never let anyone get too close. Until Max.
Summary:
The Lion’s Heart is a heart-rending story about love and sacrifice. The emotional struggle of Paul’s same-sex attraction, the guilt he feels and his ambivalence toward his Catholic faith all come together in this look inside the heart of a tortured man.
Excerpt:
No, it wasn’t the deception, unpleasant as it was, that troubled him. In fact, he simply couldn’t put his finger on it. All he knew that was truly different with Max was that he loved him. And it was that, that single stark truth, which made everything different. He never loved before… He put the empty wine glass on the balcony floor beside him and tried to find again that mysterious, interior quiet that city noise always brought him. But he felt instead a kind of disquiet that seemed urgent…Love was never wrong. He’d heard that so often from sincere people, good people. “Love was never wrong.” More than a platitude, it became a mantra. No one could argue with it, not without being judgmental or bigoted. Paul himself always believed it, although he never thought much about it before—never had much reason to think about it. But then, he’d never really loved anyone before.
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Bio:
Dena Hunt taught English at the University of New Orleans until her conversion to Christianity in 1984. Following her reception into the Roman Catholic Church, she returned to her native Georgia and taught in rural high schools until she retired. She did not start writing until after her retirement. Currently, she has several short stories in print and online as well as reviews and essays. The Lion’s Heart is her second novel and won the 2016 Catholic Arts and Letters Award in Adult Fiction. The first novel, Treason, was published by Sophia Press and won the Gold Medal for Religious Fiction in the 2014 IPPY Awards.
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Review:
“Dena Hunt is a consummate story-teller who does not shirk or shy away from the difficult questions about life and love that her story raises. The Lion’s Heart contains not only the loves of lovers, spouses, parents, and children but also the demons and dragons that selfishness unleashes. The Lion’s Heart is not for the faint-hearted, nor is it for the hard-hearted. It pulsates with a passion that will bring true hearts to their knees.” — Joseph Pearce, author of The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, co-editor of the St. Austin Review
Michael Fraley
Michael Fraley has been editing and posting the CWG Book Blast since 2016. He's adapted the Arthurian portion of Geoffrey of Monmouth's “Histories of the Kings of Britain” to the comic page, has worked in book illustration, graphic design, and has also served as a newspaper columnist. In 2019 the story of his conversion to Catholicism was told in Nancy Ward's book Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story. His primary area of study is in the Jewish roots of the Church, with an emphasis on the Gospel of Matthew and the Epistle of James. He holds a MA in theology from St. Joseph's College of Maine and a BFA in fine art from Indiana University. He can be reached at michael@michaelfraley.com