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Evidence of Love

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Evidence of Love is another SHirley Ann Grau family history. Told in her signature style of first person narrative from various perspectives through the book. Opening is the pleasure seeking life of the patriarch Edward who seeks out every pleasure of the flesh and buys people like trinkets and toys. He goes through women and a few men for physcial pleasure and companionship , marries repeatedly and hires a poor Irish woman in good health - a stranger to sire his son.
Book2 is the story of his son Stephen a scholar who disdains the flesh and devotes his life to his ministry and studies. He marries a woman who has given up pleasure for duty and they have 2 sons.
Book3 focuses on Lucy- wife of Stephen. Her story is quite interesting. She is of English and Boer descent from Kenya. She ends up in the US via a short intense marriage to a brilliant man Stephen went to school with at Princeton. HEr marriage and the intellectual power and dissembly of her husband's mental state is portrayed with a stark prose that is Ms Grau at her best.

Shirley Ann Grau won the Pulitzer in 1965 for Keepers of the House. Her other works include the Condor Passes and a number of collections of short stories. Her strength is her character development. Evidence of Love is a character study. A quick read- a must for devotees of her work.