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The Devoted book. Read 60 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Nicole Hennessy's world revolves around her Boston Zendo, to the chagri.
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Shelley hasn't told anyone she's dropped out of college just months before graduating, and is living in her childhood apartment while working as an amanuensis for a blind architect, with whom she develops a rather complicated relationship. And when Nick, on the run from the law after a misguided and dramatic act of political activism, finally shows up at Shelley's New York home, worlds officially collide as Nick and the architect's daughter fall in love.
Soon, all three siblings are faced with the question they have been running from their whole lives: What do they want their future to look like, if they can finally escape their past? Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts.
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As Lucy navigates this complex relationship in all its youthful heartache and prepares for life in the broader world, she begins to question accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval and searching for an authentic way to live and love. About the Authors. For the past four years, she has been a full-time lecturer in NYU's essay writing program, and currently teaches writing at the University of Southern California.
A native New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and son. If you need assistance with this website, please contact us. Event date:. Thursday, June 27, - pm. Obviously the author has a deep connection to these questions of faith and identity, and impressive knowledge of both the Irish Catholic culture and the practices and teachings of Zen Buddhism, as well as their more or less condoned abuses.
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Beyond that she has been able to capture the desires and the shame that usually pace like caged animals behind acts of teen rage and rebellion. She seems, on a visceral level, to get pain, guilt, and love And she is able to convey that through no nonsense prose and thoughtful departures into Zen scripture.
I was left feeling a little uncomfortable while reading, then ultimately, profoundly satisfied with the imperfection, the humanness attained by the story's final resolution.
One person found this helpful. Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Intense, quiet, insightful, gripping. Authentic characters taking a circuitous journey from young adulthood to life, must be read. This is an unusual, readable, brilliantly written book. Loved loved loved it. Well written but dharma short. Interesting and timely novel. Beautiful use of language evoking intimate emotions.!
Extremely moving, well-written and engaging story, that is even more amazing considering it's her first novel. Amazing first novel and gripping story. Thoughtful prose that dive into the psyches of the characters. See all 16 customer reviews. Write a customer review. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free delivery with Amazon Prime. Back to top. Get to Know Us. Amazon Payment Products. English Choose a language for shopping.
The details of Buddhism about which I knew very little going into the book are also nicely interwoven, informative without feeling info-dumpy; they add realism and depth to Nicole's story, and I'm left even more interested than I already was in learning more about Buddhism.
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I also related to the vivid picture of Nicole's complicated attachment to her master and her attempts to escape his influence, as I spent several years in an abusive relationship myself. The depiction of the hold that a controlling person can have on a victim, and of Nicole's thoughts and actions, felt so authentic as to be difficult for me to read at times and it was hard to imagine that the author wasn't speaking from personal experience though I sincerely hope not. Overall, the book tells a rich and compelling story about the at times overwhelming pull of faith, others' expectations, and the past, and the struggle it can be to find our true selves amidst all these influences.
I enjoyed it so much that I'm already almost done a second listen, and I'll be eager for more writing from Hurley in the future. Nicole ran away from home and her Catholic upbringing at the age of seventeen. Now 32, she is still processing the outcomes of that decision as she navigates life as a devoted Buddhist. Her Zen Master her roshi has been a controlling, manipulative force in her life for 10 years, and she is ready to break free and find herself.
But the ghosts of her past and present follow her everywhere. Highly recommended for fans of literary fiction, character development, and exploration of religion in Nicole ran away from home and her Catholic upbringing at the age of seventeen. Highly recommended for fans of literary fiction, character development, and exploration of religion in shaping people and communities.
Compelling and fascinating. Very well written and intriguing examination of Buddhist faith, Catholic faith, contemporary coming-of-age, and understanding the nature of devotion, its dark and light sides, its sacrifices. The only weakness in the narrative was the character of Sean, likable and potentially interesting but under developed. Beautiful exploration of guilt and the need for absolution. Can't believe this is a debut. Simply spectacular! Not for me. The Devoted, an accomplished and moving first novel by Blair Hurley, is the story of two journeys of self-discovery and liberation woven deftly into one.
The first follows the stumbling, unskillful and sometimes perilous path of Nicole as a fretful and rebellious schoolgirl into young womanhood in her native Boston; in the second, we find her mostly in New York City, a distraught, unhealthily dependent and emotionally rootless young woman searching desperately for substance, purpose, and The Devoted, an accomplished and moving first novel by Blair Hurley, is the story of two journeys of self-discovery and liberation woven deftly into one.
The first follows the stumbling, unskillful and sometimes perilous path of Nicole as a fretful and rebellious schoolgirl into young womanhood in her native Boston; in the second, we find her mostly in New York City, a distraught, unhealthily dependent and emotionally rootless young woman searching desperately for substance, purpose, and spiritual meaning in her life. As she recalls, in alternating passages, the stories of the childhood that has endowed her with a legacy of crippling insecurity and self-doubt, the Master hovers, a dark, clutching and seemingly inescapable presence over her every effort to come to a sense of individuality and freedom.
Nicole reveals herself, acknowledges herself, only reluctantly, deeply shamed by her past, unforgiving of its wounds, and unable to shed an overwhelming sense of guilt.
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Friendship and intimacy elude her; she spurns the superficial social intercourse that makes living tolerable for those who are content with its surfaces; and spins ever further out of control. It is eventually the icily sadistic commands of her Master, bringing her on the telephone to the point of death and, perilously, back, that confront her with the need to take responsibility for herself. The Devoted is a short, compelling read and, its brevity notwithstanding, is unafraid to tackle big issues without simplification or evasion.
It exposes the potential of religious orthodoxy—whether Catholic or Buddhist—to degenerate into the exercise of male domination and exploitation of the innocent. It delves into the problematics of family ties, between mother and daughter, father and daughter, brother and sister.
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It takes us through the heartbreak of betrayal and loss, and investigates the narrow ground between devotion and dependency, between spiritual fervency and unhealthy addiction… In the end, it manages to bring Nicole to the most welcome, sacred and eventually satisfying of all refuges: love. The Devoted is a good Buddhist lesson, too, in its acknowledgement that turmoil and suffering are unavoidable in our lives, but no less impermanent than every other aspect of the human experience.
Such a skillfully-written, fascinating book. It was such a pleasure to read something so well-constructed and layered, shot through with that spark of insight that makes fiction worth reading. I loved the exploration of the idea of the world as a text that can be read and decoded, the nature of revelation and power, and the particular evocation of a specific New England. This is a very strong, compulsively readable first novel with an impressively drawn main character. The parallels and contrasts between Nicole's relationship with Buddhism and the Master and her relationship with Catholicism and her family are well done and interesting to explore.
Highly recommended, especially if you have an interest in religion as a topic, whether or not you are religious yourself. View 1 comment.
In it, a year-old woman comes to grips with her life, spent as a rebellious Catholic teen and later as a devotee of a Buddhist master. Hers is a life of travail, alienation from her Boston Catholic family except for her brother Paul, who admirably stands by her , existence on a shoestring, constant inner examination and frustration, and aloneness. She does, in spite of all this, or maybe because of it, find her calling in the wake of Catholic clergy scandal and its victims, one victim in particular.
Nicole grows up in what appears a typical American family. Her family, notably her mother, are devoted Catholics. Nicole as a teen grows less so. She finds solace in Buddhism, which she reads on her own. Finally, Nicole, at 17, breaks with her family and spends a year on a quest to reach a monastery in Colorado, along with two boys, one troubled, the other larking but quietly in love with Nicole.
The quest ends in tragedy and her parents bring her home. Another loss follows, and she finally turns to Zen Buddhism and the Master and tutelage in his Zendo. This long episode of her life finds her living in poverty, striving to understand herself through Buddhist teachings, and forming a romantic relationship with the Master.
The Master fully controls her and she becomes dependent upon him for maintaining her psychological health. Some readers will certainly find this relationship maddening, and wonder how Nicole cannot see how the Master has seduced her into an unhealthy relationship. Then, after she finally understands she must break with the Master, how he continually draws her back into his web, even using people around her to delve deeper into her consciousness and use the discoveries to manipulate her.
She becomes a broken soul and she meets another broken soul, Sean. No doubt many will relate to Nicole, especially if those who have been on their own rough journeys of self-discovery and searches for modicums of meaning in life. Here is a novel for you. Others might not enjoy the journey quite as much. Have you ever longed for "the secret knowledge at the heart of all things?