rhetorical excursions

This is a beautifully crafted, clever story broken up into 3 separate books. Moojie is an orphan left at the door of a church in a little town off of the coast of California at the beginning of the 1900's. A town where the folks are settled in their ways, still believers of mythical stories and have a tremendous hatred for the Natives of the land. Truthfully I believe it's more of an ignorance-driven fear then hatred, like most bigots the town folk are quick shoot and slow to aim. The first 6 years of Moojie's life pass by quite uneventfully. Save for the family that adopted him, the strange and miraculous situations that happen when he's excited or angry. His inability to walk or talk and the eventual sudden death of his mother. Poor Moojie's life at 6 changed drastically. After the death of his mother, his father decided he could no long be a parent and abandoned his poor crippled speech-impaired son on his Father, Captain Finnegan, or Pappy as he comes to be...

This is a very interesting book, to say the least. It has subtle undertones of Dead Like Me, a really great television show about Grim Reapers from the early 2000's mixed  faintly with the writing style of A. Lee Marteniez's Divine Misfortune, all cleverly narrated by Roquet's spunky slack-off protagonist Lana. Also, there isn't a single religion that has not been targeted. Blasphemy, all around. Archangel, Gabriel is a terrible alcoholic, The Grim Reaper himself is a power hungry business mogul and the afterlife has become just another job to work at for survival. The world in of itself is very fascinating, for example, the City of Limbo is where all the Reapers live, some souls that have been harvested can either bribe their way into staying on shore and work in factories in Limbo City to avoid not being chartered off to an afterlife or thrown into the Sea of Eternity. The souls have even created a Union and demanded and won their right not to work on Satur...