Who knew Gregory Maguire could write a book that isn’t a riff off of a fairy tale? Not me. Good thing, TW saw The Next Queen of Heaven on the shelf. So it’s not a fairy tale but it has plenty of fairies – the gay kind that you sort of come to expect from anything Maguire writes.
So you’ve got the gay guys. AIDS. Old Nuns. Catholics and Pentecostals sharing a parking lot. Delinquent kids. A mom who’s pretty much out of it after The Virgin Mary bops her on the head.
Funny and sad, all at the same time.