When someone or something close to you dies, a part of you dies, according to Letters to Stephen (Northstone $17.95). James Taylor's book is a father's journey of grief and recovery after his son Stephen died after a long struggle with cystic fibrosis. Taylor's Sin (Northstone $19.95) subtitled "a new understanding of virtue and vice", examines traditional notions of good and evil.

[BCBW 1997]