JG “Greg” Faherty’s (’84) eighth novel, “The Wakening,” will be released in January 2022. It follows a reality TV ghost hunter and his crew, an exorcist, a psychic, and a defrocked priest as they try to rid an upstate town of an ancient evil.
Anyone who’s spent time at Bona’s or in the Olean area will likely recognize many of the locations described in this story, which takes place in a fictional town and nearby university on the banks of the Allegheny River. More than a few of the events depicted are based loosely on stories Faherty heard growing up in the area, or from his conversations with the late Fr. Alphonsus Trabold, O.F.M., professor of theology.
“The Wakening” follows on the heels of Faherty’s previous book, “Sins of the Father” (2020), which dealt with the very different theme of a young man trying to forge his own path in life and not follow the horrific footsteps of his mad-scientist father, only to find their paths intersecting when he is faced with the very same life-or-death predicament that sent his father to prison for life. Faith, priesthood, church, relationships and home slip through his grasp making way for the sight of never imagined horizons.
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