"Nuns just want to have fun! But when three former Catholic nuns, Coito Gott, Theodora Suoraand Regina Granthave too much fun and get in trouble with the law, they become nuns on the run. Driving back to Washington D.C. where they work at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Parts, the three sisters are arrested in Tennessee. After defeating the local deputy in strip poker, they escape from jail, and are pursued by the zealous Detective Schmuck Hole, who has personally offered a $10,000 reward for their capture on the 700 Club. Little do they know that when the three sisters visit the Washington Monument, their lives will change forever.Set in 1979, The Three Sisters is a sacrilegious satire that skewers not only organized religion, but the government, the media, intellectuals, corporate greed and every other part of the establishment. Maybe not the greatest story ever told, but possibly the funniest."
Genre: Humor, Satire
Publisher: Dragon Tree Books
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Buy: Amazon
Bryan Taylor is a double PK, a preacher’s kid of a preacher’s kid. He decided to switch from the Southern Baptists to Catholicism, but when he applied to join a convent, he was rejected (sex discrimination!), so he decided to do the next best thing: write a novel about the three nuns he would most like to meet. Bryan Taylor was born in Louisiana, grew up in Michigan and Texas, went to school in Tennessee, South Carolina and California, taught in Switzerland for a year, and has traveled to 50 countries. He now lives in California, which is one of the few places with people crazier than him.
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college I was at had a small Newman Club for committed collegiate
Catholics, who still spent most of their youthful years behaving more
like St. Augustine than Cardinal Newman. Some of my friends and I set
up a Joyce Club as a refuge for lapsed Catholics, and during our
years there, we successfully filched several members of the Newman
Club and got them to join our own. Whenever this occurred, I could
share the great joy the father in the Bible must have experienced
when the Prodigal Son returned home, or the shepherd had found his
lost sheep. Working with this close-knit group of friends and
learning from each other made college worthwhile...
Academic
life also gave me the opportunity to express my artistic talents in
ways that impressed my coterie of college friends. When it snowed, a
not infrequent event in Chicago, we created chionic masterpieces that
lasted until the sun melted them away. Some were conventional, like
Marie Antoinette Gets the Guillotine, but when the college was too
cheap to build new sidewalks for its students we put together a
column of legless snowmen and snowwomen sitting on their carts and
pushing themselves along with paper signs on them saying, “Chicago’s
disabled demand new sidewalks!” Thus we married the avant-garde to
social activism.
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