Exit 36: A Fictional Chronicle

When Father William Jansson hears the unexpected confession of a dead priest's mistress, he finds himself caught in a web of secrets and mysteries. Exit 36 is Robert Capon's probing investigation of death, judgment, Hell, and Heaven.

"Like one of Jesus' parables, Exit 36 avoids moral lessons or easy answers. Instead, Robert Farrar Capon explores suicide, adultery, and the general failures that beset both the characters in this novel and all of us with them. And he does it without moral outrage or shoulder-shrugging apathy. Instead, Capon looks directly at the agony of a fallen world through the mystery of the reconciliation of everything and everybody in Christ. Whatever scandals one might find in this book, however, the scandal of grace through the death and resurrection of Jesus triumphs over it all. Capon's voice is needed now as much as it ever has been."

--The Very Revd Mark Strobel, Dean, Gethsemane Cathedral Fargo

"Running parallel to the good old-fashioned mystery is a long look at our deepest anxieties about death, sin, forgiveness when forgiveness is outrageous and impossible, and love. The romance of love is dealt with unabashedly. But the humanity of love - the Jesus who lives in us all and frees us from sin - is revealed by our narrator's own searching thoughts, bold self-examination, frank dialogue with parishioners and quietly stunning acts of compassion."

--Laura E. Bondarchuk, East Marion, NY