I finished L’Engle’s  A Live Coal in the Sea. It was hard to put down once I got going, even though there’s much in it that’s excruciating. It centers around a family’s attempt…

How do you heal human brokenness? It’s a question–the main question–Madeleine L’Engle explores in A Severed Wasp. The answer is a little surprising, given that the novel is set within the close-knit framework of…