Publisher's Synopsis
When the young Reverend Charles Quayle leaves his rural Georgia wife and congregation to be at his dying aunt's bedside in Atlanta, he has no idea how radically his life is about to change. In the course of two weeks, he learns of the family's darkest secrets. Beyond the confines of Dillard, Pastor Howard, and the plastic piety of a frigid wife, he slips into the world of progressive rock-sex, drugs, alcohol, love and the discovery of what true religion is all about.