The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter

Love in all varieties is featured in this wonderful novel which won a National Book Award for author Charles Baxter. Straight love, gay love, parental love, hot love, cool love, requited love, and unrequited love. For those with faith in literature as a pathway to truth, Baxter's novel with inspire insight. The author is smart enough to know that "The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn't annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. In this sense, love and God are equivalents." Excellent book.