The Bells - Cai Emmons - Red Hen Press

''As The Bells opens, thirty-three-year-old Niall O'Malley has failed a five-year mission to live as a monk and is attempting to redefine himself as a high school teacher in New Jersey. The transition has been bumpy. He loves teaching history to inner city teens, but he hits a roadblock when a belligerent student, Colton, possibly a white-supremacist, behaves in ways that threaten Niall. As troubles mount at school, Niall's girlfriend, Lluvia, pressures him into making a deeper commitment to their relationship: she wants them to move in together with Lluvia's pre-teen daughter and elderly mother. Haunted by his failure as a Cistercian monk and his troubles with one man in particular, the abusive Brother Thomas, Niall abandons Lluvia and heads back to his old monastery in Massachusetts for a final showdown with Thomas, now dying of ALS. Redemption for Niall is elusive as he strives to mend his faith''--

Product Specs:
EAN/ISBN: 9781636283623

Contributor: Cai Emmons

Call Number: PS3605.M57

Dewey: 813.6

Category: Faith ; New Jersey ; Temper ; Redemption ; Ex-monks ; High school teachers ; History teachers ; Teacher-student relationships ; Man-woman relationships ; Novels ; Fiction

Harmonized Code: 4901.99.0075

Category: Topical | Family

Publish Date: 10/28/2025