Definition of "edgy"

[patti lacy]

An "edgy" book I read this year is Demon, by Tosca Lee. I think it took her over five years to get the thing published.

I couldn't put the book down. At various times over the two days I read the book, I hated it, loved it. It kept me thinking, day and night. That's my definition of edgy...
Patti

[Michelle Sutton]

And it was so fabulous and edgy and unique that I put it on my top books for 2007! I agree with you, Patti!

[Donald James Parker]

It definitely provided food for thought. I gave Tosca a raving review on Amazon. I've never read a book quite like it.
Don

[Georgiana Daniels]

I loved that book! It gave me a different perspective, and made me want to scrutinize the Bible more closely. Any book that can both entertain me and make me think, is high on my list. In fact, it was one of my favorites of '07.

[patti lacy]

It's neat to share such a book with people as diverse as an octagenarian and a college student and get positive feedback. Any other "edgy" suggestions?

[Pam Meyers]

My view of "edgy" is tackling the tough subjects that plague humankind today, both in the Christian world as well as the secular. A few years ago I read a book by Gayle Roper called Spring Rain. The main storyline included a family having to deal with one of it's members being gay and having AIDS. The guy was a Christian. Gayle handled the topic so well. A year or two later, Bette Norberg came out with A Season of Grace, a first person written in the POV of a woman whose twin brother had AIDS. Like Gayle's, it was edgy for broaching the subject in a CBA novel, and yet so needed. Both stories have stayed with me a long time.

[Michelle Sutton]

One of my favorite reads of all time (comes out this next month- Jan 2008) is A Passion Most Pure by Julie Lessman. Wow. Need I say more? It's profoundly Christian and also profoundly human and had flawed characters. I loved it.

[Pam Meyers]

I'm reading Passion Most Pure right now and am loving it. Everything you say about it is spot on!

[patti lacy]

Well, that's the kind of recommendation I need to place ANOTHER Amazon order. Sigh, budget...

[Michelle Sutton]

It will be money worth spending, I promise!!!

[Michelle Sutton]

Thanks, Pam. I'd like to think I'm spot on. :) You da best.

[Kelley Pounds]

I just joined Edgy Christian Fiction Lovers, so I'm late with my reply. ;) I have not read Spring Rain, but I met Gayle at the Glorieta conference a couple of years ago, and I sat at her table at one of the lunches. She talked about this book, and if I remember correctly, she said she did get at least one letter from a reader who was not happy with her subject matter. But hearing her speak about it, I thought it sounded like a brave book.

[Timothy Fish]

I think part of what took Tosca Lee so long to get published was her use of the Second Person point of view (POV) in her orginal manuscript. I have not seen the original, but I suspect that adding the Clay character helped the work significantly. Tosca Lee has said, "it was a bit too experimental for most editors." (http://noveljourney.blogspot.com/2007/07/author-interview-tosca-lee...) There are very few novelists who have been successful at pulling off the Second Person POV.