The Next Queen of Heaven, (Paperback)

from Carol420

The story focuses on small town America and the role that religion plays in this setting. The cast of characters rely on religion in various ways for various purposes, some spiritual, some skeptical while others are going through the paces of their lives looking for ways to connect and finding th...

from PirateJenny

I'm a big fan of Maguire's fairy tale retellings, so when I won this from LibraryThing I was quite excited. I mean, Maguire on weird religious stuff! But I ended up a bit disappointed. The characters were interesting, the whole idea of a fundie getting hit on the head by a statue of the Virgin Ma...

from judiparadis

I love Gregory Maguire's adult fairy tale stories, but this is something very different. It is a magical fiction story set in upstate New York in the 1990s and follows an incredibly dysfunctional family through its single-mother's descent into craziness after a statue of the Virgin Mary falls on ...

from fyrefly98

Summary: A few days before Halloween of 1999, Mrs. Leotina Scales sneaks into the basement of the Catholic church of Thebes, New York (to steal milk for the coffee of the Radical Radiant Pentecostals, next door). While down there, she gets bonked in the head by a statue of the virgin Mary, and be...

from Shapatm

The Next Queen of Heaven is a departure from the normal Gregory Maguire tale. There are no fairy tales retold or mythic beings. It's life at its messiest and how people deal with it which makes for an interesting journey.