A Woman of Transcendental Means
Finding Faith through Music and the Church Coffee Hour
Fiction by Michael Dodaro
A woman aged in her fifties who is a successful architect meets a man of her age during intermission at a production of the opera Thais, by Massenet. The man is a lapsed monk of the Benedictine order who has education in philosophy and theology. Stimulating conversations follow, more music, and eventually romance. She is suffering from heart disease. They go back to church and discover another world that still thrives amid postmodern cultural decay.
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The author Michael Dodaro is published in First Things Journal of Religion in Public Life, The New Oxford Review, and extensively online. He has written documentation for software developers for more than twenty years. This musical novella is his most recent fiction title. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, soprano Diane Althaus. They are musicians with operatic credits and decades singing liturgical music.
