“Good novels should not answer questions,” Elie Wiesel once said. “They should deepen the questions.” After reading Cities of Refuge, one is left with the sense that human beings are much deeper, more complex and mysterious than they often appear to be. Michael Helm asks the big questions that weigh ordinary people down and bear them…
Mary Jo Leddy
Mary Jo Leddy has lived and worked with refugees for 20 years. She is the author of several books and teaches theology at the University of Toronto. She is a senior fellow of Massey College.