When Life Betrays You, Only Love Remains

Reviewing Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-Winning Novel, ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey’

Five people walk across a rope bridge spanning a deep ravine. The bridge fails and all five plummet to their deaths. What do we make of it? Our lives all contain similar tragedies, some larger, many smaller. How do we manage? Some seek comfort in faith, others in relationships. Either way, whether sacred or secular, as Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-winning…