Last Words of the Holy Ghost Nancy Lombard Aaron's Rod

Aaron's Rod

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Last Words of the Holy Ghost Nancy Lombard Aaron's RodFunny, heartbreaking, and real these twelve stories showcase a dynamic range of voices belonging to characters who can't stop confessing. They are obsessive storytellers, disturbed professors, depressed auctioneers, gambling clergy. A fourteen year old boy gets baptized and speaks in tongues to win the love of a girl who ushers him into adulthood; a troubled insomniac searches the woods behind his mother's house for the "awful pretty" singing that