Cathedral

Set against the backdrop of Notre-Dame of Paris, Cathedralis a thoughtful, engaging novel about encounters andplaces that change us and help us understand ourselves.Notre-Dame is the life-long obsession of a New Mexico lawyerwho quits his job as a patent attorney for a national research labin order to spend full-time pursuing his fascination with thecathedral's Gothic architecture and its patron saint. Althoughhe is an agnostic, the shadow of the cathedral has accompaniedhim in life since his first look as a child at the towers, spire andflying buttresses of the medieval Catholic sanctuary. StudyingNotre-Dame and its goddess also reveals for him the architectureof the human spirit but complicates his search for a companionwho might share his infatuation with the greatest artistic andspiritual achievement of the Middle Ages. On April 15, 2019, hewatches in disbelief from his Île Saint-Louis apartment balconyas Notre-Dame struggles to survive a conflagration that threatensto erase the cathedral from its proud place at the heart of Paris.