In Worship of Hollow Gods James Sniechowski bears witness to the world of Jim, a sensitive nine-year-old boy, subjected to the underbelly of his Polish Catholic family in working class Detroit. The year is 1950. The family gathers for a Friday night alcohol soaked poker/pinochle party. The outcome reveals a world no one ever talked about then and are forbidden to talk about now—the unspoken, the impermissible, the reality beneath every family’s practiced appearance—and what lies beneath when the front has been ripped away. Hollow Gods unsparingly yet compassionately evokes the temptations, trials, and tactics of the family characters isolated from one another and the world around them while revealing the hollow gods they worship without knowing it: the living ghosts in the unseen of their family’s way of life, the invisible and the unconscious that sources and shapes their beliefs and behaviors. Worship of Hollow Gods dredges up realities from the sediment of long buried family beliefs, prejudices, and legends that grip and hold tight, unconsciously dictating their destiny.

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