Gemini Smiled

About the Book

One day, many centuries ago, as the Gemini, Castor and Pollux, watch Isaac mistakenly bless Jacob rather than the intended Esaw, one twin turns to the other with glee and says, “But look. There. Down the road of time... There will be another changing of twins with earth shattering consequences too.”

And so, Gemini Smiled, the story predicted by the Gemini twin, takes place in the late 1990's in a small Ontario city. Told through the eyes of 12 people who are directly involved or touched by the ordination of a woman as a Roman Catholic priest instead of her twin brother, the novel, as it unfolds, takes the reader into the various worlds and mind-sets of the Bishop, a newspaper publisher, a woman professor, the bishop’s administrative assistant, the twins and their parents to name a few.

But the question is: can the blessing in this modern switching of twins, unlike like that of the Patriarch’s, be undone?

About the Author

Robert John Christy, an Ottawa author, discovered the joys of writing just before entering secondary school. Later, as a social policy researcher/ analyst for the federal government, he discovered that writing was a serious, difficult art. Over the years, and especially since retiring, he has written articles about living and working with a disability for the daily press and magazines. “Life With Cerebral Palsy” an “Over To You” column in the February 5, 2001 issue of Maclean’s was republished in McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s The Act of Writing (6th edition, 2003) and will again appear in its 2006 7th edition. Gemini Smiled is his first novel.