One, A Novel
Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.
Apr 2025 · Divine Comedy: A Native American Coming-of-Age Story Book 2 · Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.
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As the sequel to True, One continues to unfold the star-crossed romance of the first book, whose theme is self-discovery. In the course of this classic 1980’s tale of money, sex, and fast living, set in Los Angeles and cities across Europe, the main character Tom Spotted Tail Augustine Stearns, a Stanford undergraduate, home for Christmas Break from his studies in France, finds himself tempted and seduced by all that glitters, but is not gold. Despite his sincere faith, repentance, frequenting of the sacraments, and marriage to a brilliant blonde co-ed from Napa Valley, Tom repeatedly falls from grace. Under the seductive power of the world, the flesh, and the devil, Tom is led deeper and deeper into a Dantean woods of melancholic isolation and sin, spiritual correction and suffering, but also, ultimately, unmerited love and redemption. In the completion of his interior journey and life, as both sinner and saint, Tom discovers what it means to be one, in weakness and in strength, in flesh and in spirit, in time and in eternity.
About the author
Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr. is an American writer of Catholic-themed fiction and nonfiction. He holds an A.B. from Stanford University in English and French Literature. He spent his junior year at Stanford studying French and French fiction, drama, and poetry in Tours, France, and also toured Britain and Europe, including their great churches and cathedrals, such as St. Paul’s Cathedral, Notre Dame Cathedral, Chartres Cathedral, Asam Church, Duomo Cathedral, and St. Peter’s Basilica. He lives in suburban Los Angeles, California.
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