The Gospel According to Sydney Welles: A NovelElizabeth Gilbert meets Jennifer Weiner in this hilarious comedy of errors starring resident Los Angeleno Sydney Welles. Sydney seems to have it all-a lucrative career, a comfortable life, and a man who looks good on paper-until the Catholic Church, looking to repair some serious image problems, approaches the ad agency she works for to create a positive campaign. Sydney, told by her boss it's her account to lose, stumbles through the novel trying to figure out how to sell religion to a soulless society. She begins a one-sided argument with the Lord himself via riotous, pleading e-mails, all the time asking why He/She had to enter her neat, secular life and make such a mess of it. Complicating things are her best friend Anna's on-again, off-again wedding; the disturbingly handsome priest serving as the church's liaison; and Jake, the new guy, who looks good in real life but comes equipped with all the real-life complications. Susi Rajah's wickedly funny debut novel introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction and gives us a ribald, self-deprecating young woman who eventually discovers that love requires even more faith than religion. |
Contents
Section 19 | 185 |
Section 20 | 194 |
Section 21 | 201 |
Section 22 | 211 |
Section 23 | 219 |
Section 24 | 228 |
Section 25 | 237 |
Section 26 | 246 |
Section 9 | 87 |
Section 10 | 97 |
Section 11 | 106 |
Section 12 | 120 |
Section 13 | 127 |
Section 14 | 135 |
Section 15 | 149 |
Section 16 | 155 |
Section 17 | 168 |
Section 18 | 178 |
Section 27 | 256 |
Section 28 | 266 |
Section 29 | 276 |
Section 30 | 285 |
Section 31 | 299 |
Section 32 | 305 |
Section 33 | 313 |
Section 34 | 323 |
Section 35 | 325 |
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