Han Nolan is a fantastic author. Ignore the fact that she is a young adult writer and that most of the people in her books are adolescents, the books have the most fascinating themes. Take, Dancing on the Edge. When I first started this book I thought it was dippy and insane. I kept reading it and was amazed by it. This book I am half way through called When We Were Saints is no different. It is causing me to ask all sorts of questions such as, would saints be considered insane in our day and age? Would prophets be medicated into normality? A saint in my mind is someone who takes an extreme path to God. Saints are like shaman, like yogi, like Buddhist monks in a way. They make me think of modern people who go into trances and cut at their skin.. I guess, reading through this book leads me to strange questions and what is mental illness, and what might really be... the Real Thing.
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