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Between the ages of twelve and fifteen, Martin Moran had a sexual relationship with an older man, a counselor he'd met at a Catholic boys' camp. Almost thirty years later, at the age of forty-two, he set out to find and face his abuser.
The Tricky Part tells the story of this relationship and its complex effect on the man Moran became. He grew up in an exemplary Irish Catholic family-his great aunt was a cloistered nun; his father, a newspaper reporter. They might have lived in the Denver neighborhood of Virginia Vale, but they belonged to Christ the King, the church and school up the hill. And the lessons Martin absorbed, as a good Catholic boy, were filled with the fraught mysteries of the spirit and the flesh.
Into that world came Bob-a Vietnam vet carving a ranch-camp out of the mountain wilderness, showing the boys under his care how to milk cows, mend barbed wire fence, and raft rivers. He drove a six-wheeled International Harvester truck; he could read the stars like a map. He also noticed a young boy who seemed a little unsure of himself, and he introduced that boy to the secret at the center of bodies.
Told with startling candor and disarming humor, The Tricky Part carries us to the heart of a paradox-that what we think of as damage may be the very thing that gives rise to transformation, even grace.
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The Tricky Part: A Boy's Story of Sexual Trespass, a Man's Journey to Forgiveness
May 17, 2016, Beacon Press
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Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace
2014, Beacon Press
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1306909147 9781306909143
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The tricky part: one boy's fall from trespass into grace
2006, Souvenir
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0285637479 9780285637474
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Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace
2006, TBS/GBS/Transworld
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The tricky part: one boy's fall from trespass into grace
2006, Anchor Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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0307276538 9780307276537
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The tricky part
2005, Dramatists Play Service, Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
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0822220369 9780822220367
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The tricky part: one boy's fall from trespass into grace
2005, Beacon Press
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