Books by Harry Sylvester

Dayspring by Harry Sylvester, foreword by Philip Jenkins

A Novel of Redemption

Spencer Bain is a modern man of science, a university anthropologist doing fieldwork in a small New Mexican town. Used to long separations from his wife, a UCLA professor equally dedicated to her career, he is mostly untroubled by his infidelities, and hers; that is, until now.
In order to study the religious practices of the Penitents, a brotherhood of local men who engage in severe, medieval penances, Bain feigns a conversion to Catholicism and participates in their Lenten observances, including their dramatic public procession on Good Friday.
Nothing in Bain's skeptical academic training has prepared him for the profound remorse that he begins to experience. more...
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