Regeneration by Pat Barker

Posted by Christopher Cocca ⋅ June 18, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

Filed Under Pat Barker, Regeneration, Religion and Spirituality

A few years ago, a Mennonite at the Kutztown Folk Festival gave me a copy of Regeneration by Pat Barker. It was in a bin of dollar books at his church’s tent, and while i dug for grungy bills, he told me I could have whatever I wanted, free.

I started reading Regeneration over the weekend. I’m through Chapter 4, and I really like it. A compelling picture of care has already emerged (and I expect to be woefully, blissfully subdued by the anti-war message throughout).

Help! There’s a Mennonite in Me (patheos.com)
Pat Barker Reads from her new novel ‘Toby’s Room’ (Durham Light Infantry Museum, May 10 2012) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com)

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Christopher Cocca is a Pennsylvania-based writer and community organizer. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Brevity, elimae, Pindeldyboz, Geez Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Generate, and elsewhere. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 2005 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (fiction) from The New School in 2011. He helps lead the Air Quality Partnership of Lehigh Valley - Berks and is the Associate for Urban Mission at FPC Allentown. Opinions expressed on-line are solely his. Quotation does not equal endorsement, except for when it does.

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