The Mending

The past collides with the present in The Mending as the iconoclastic Benjamin Adams Pratt prepares for a milestone school reunion that inadvertently becomes a poignant and rollicking homecoming for a prodigal son who forsook the Mormon Zion for Manhattan. Snapshots from his past emerge to form a refreshingly nuanced and complex portrait of an achingly self-conscious man of remarkable devotion and awkward loyalty. In free-flowing narratives resonant of John Irvings A Prayer for Owen Meany, Scott merges riotously humorous storytelling with malingering regrets about half-formed relationships and missed opportunities. He vividly