And when god fails, we all grow angry; refusing to see that it was we who created him.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a beautiful book, the kind which reminds you of that unexplained ache in your heart, the one that you are so scared to share because you know no one can understand it. All of us misfits here, forced to live alone/along together. Mick Kelly is as real as Scout Finch. A very intense child, a child with whom so many of us can relate to who chooses to read this kind of a book her faith in the uniqueness of her person, her division of the inner room and the outer room, her extreme love of her family and her selfish love of herself. And who is Singer? A God whom we attribute with all powers of understanding; a God who we need to believe understands us; a God who is fighting his own personal battles each day; a God who is bemused with all the attention. Singer doesnt care about these people; we as reader do. Can God help himself? A God who is a message of hope to so many people around him, a God who through his silence eludes us into believing that he understands all languages, knows all our secrets! Singer fails because for him there is no God to hold on to, there was only love and that too is gone. The characters were all brought alive through delicate details brought about by the characters observations of each other. We get to know through a nuanced telling about how Brannon used to be a virile man once upon a time, yet something had happened that made him an almost woman in his wants and feeling of loneliness. His desire for young children, especially the young Baby as well as Mick is ambiguous not quite that of a lover, not quite that of a father. Everyone has their own struggle even Baby who was supposed to have the perfect glamorous life. Everyone is alone the cafe owner of a very busy cafe, a child with five siblings, a doctor with the love of the masses, a drunkard in the midst of his cronies; every single one of them is lonely. Perhaps the feeling of being alone is brought out by Simms, the preacher, most bluntly. No anguish is depicted there, no agony of the lonely. Instead a determined, very blatant clinginess is shown. If a reader is so blind as to ignore the main characters clinginess to Singer, McCullen here has arrow marked loneliness in the character of Simms. In the end, all that remains to be said with a sigh is that the heart is actually a lonely hunter.

Not only is the author a master narrator, she also succeeds in bringing alive the incidents in 5D. The smell, the music, the way Mick wears lose shirts so that her newly formed body parts are hidden from