Another AMAZING Picoult book.
Mariah is totally smitten by her husband. Unfortunately he doesn't feel quite the same way about her. When she and her daughter Faith catch him in their bedroom with another woman the marriage is officially over. Seven years earlier Mariah completely fell apart to the point of suicide after the same kind of an incident. THis time she has Faith and things are different and completely the same.
As Mariah fights to keep her sanity Faith begins to talk to an imaginary friend, her Gaurd. When Faith begins spouting scripture from the Old Testament Mariah realizes there is something not quite right. See, they are complete unbelievers - not just lapsed Jews or Christians, but unbelievers. So, Faith has never heard any verses from the Bible.
As Mariah tries to find an answer to Faith's 'problem' word that she is seeing God and a female God at that begins to leak out. People gather at Faith's home - a cult, a group of Catholics for a female God, and Ian Thompson the unevangelist for Aethists.
That is the scene. Catholics begin researching to see if she is really speaking to God - Jewish leaders question her connection as does her father - especially after she begins to bleed from her hands. And she begins healing people - including bringing her Jewish grandma back from the dead!!
Through the entire story I kept wondering....who would God appear to? Is a 7 year old all that unusual? Would I hear the voice if God appeared to me? And what about this bleeding - could that really happen?
This is one of those very thought provoking books that keeps you wondering. I loved it!!!
07/07
1 comment:
beth-
again, it seems you and i have the same taste in books. i loved this one, too. however, i think i read it from another angle because of my background. i found it interesting that a technically (not practicing or truly believing or embracing) jewish child would experience the stigmata...it would seem that something so spiritual would come to those truly devout. but, on the other hand, that is why the book was so interesting because it wasn't what i would typically expect. another one of your suggestions i loved!
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