Stealing Fatima

As the last light of AllHallows'' Eve falls on a small town at the tip of Cape Cod Father Manuel Furtado begins his nightly ritual of gin and pills prayer and hours spent writing feverishly in his ledger. With the deep luxury of the chemicals in his body he copies passages from Saint Augustine and Martin Heidegger disciplined in his desire to flesh out his everbuilding demons.. But unlike his usual uninterrupted reflection this night there is a crash sudden enough to pull Father Manny from the rectory and toward his church Our Lady of Fatima. He finds a man there his childhood friend Sarafino whom he has not seen in decades frail with illness and desperate to tell the priest about his recurring visits from the Virgin Mary. Despite Father Manny''s grave doubts about Sarafino and his visions he lets his old friend into his home and his life and this single act ignites a series of events that challenge the faith of this fishing village the parish and of Father Manny himself.. Striking and lovingly detailed Stealing Fatima is the story of a priest''s search for redemption in a town where even in these modern times the divine is possible.