How To Be Good - Nick Hornby
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction
In Nick Hornbys How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. Thats why she became a GP. Thats why she cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. Its also why she puts up with her husband David, the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway., But one fateful day, she finds herself in a Leeds parking lot, having just slept with another man. What Katie doesnt yet realize is that her fall from grace is just the first step on a spiritual journey more torturous than the interstate at rush hour. Because, prompted by his wifes actions, David is about to stop being angry. Hes about to become goodnot politically correct, organic-food-eating good, but good in the fashion of the Gospels. And thats no easier in modern-day Holloway than it was in ancient Israel., Hornby means us to take his title literally: How can we be good, and what does that mean? However, quite apart from demanding that his readers scrub their souls with the nearest
