The Book Club is Stretching Me and Making Me Think....Argh!

Someone in my book club picked this book by Canadian writer Andrew Davidson. The Gargoyle is surprisingly Davidson's first book. Wow, this book really takes you for a ride. It is definitely not my typical genre but I am glad I persevered. I feel like I'm still digesting it. The narrator tells the story of his recovery as a burn victim. Mixed in with that is a love story involving a sculptress named Marianne Engel. She claims to have known the narrator hundreds of years ago and was his lover. Marianne tells stories of their past and also love stories that belong to other people of different nationalities. It is really kind of bizarre....I"m interested to see what the others in my book club will have to say. I think that the story has a lot to do with love and how sacrificial true love is. There are many religious symbols also in this book, links to Dante's Inferno. I'm terrible at these book descriptions but the point of this isn't really to engage everyone else just to keep a record for myself of what I've been up to lately.