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Keeping Faith
Jodi Picoult must love a challenge. This is an unusual book that deals with the issue of divine religious visitations, stigmata and miracles through the experience of a young girl after her parents divorce. Picoult understands the complicated relationship between parents and their children as deftly illustrated through Mariah White after her marriage disintegrates, and she is caught up in a media circus with her daughter. Picoult tackles a hot button topic with journalistic integrity; but still manages to weave a credible and believable fictional narrative. I look forward to reading her next thought provoking offering.
Keeping Faith
Jodi Picoult is one of the finest authors of our time. This book like all of her books keeps you interested from first to last page. Her research must be time consuming but certainly adds to the essence of her books. A wonderful read!
Keeping Faith
We read this book for our book club and it generated some very good and insightful discussion. The story, about a seven-year-old girl who speaks to God whom she calls Guard and is in her eyes a woman, suffers the stigmas or physical wounds like the ones Christ bore when he was crucified. The girl's father is an Episcopalian, seemingly in name only, who finds it impossible to be honest with himself or his family, in particular his wife whom he cheats on in their bed on more than one occasion. The first time she caught her husband cheating, Mariah, a non-practicing Jew, is devastated and tries to commit suicide. Her husband quickly railroads her into an institution where she is kept on drugs, even after they discover she is pregnant. But this time, she is stronger and her husband's act of adultery does not shatter her completely and the marriage breaks up. She stays in the home with their daughter, while he hurries off to Vegas to marry his pregnant mistress. Then miracles begin to happen in their daughter's wake and the media and people wanting/needing a miracle camp on Mariah's door step, including an atheist whose TV shows are about debunking religion and miracles. The husband decides to take custody of the daughter, the lawyer bringing up the past to declare Mariah an unfit mother.In the back of the book I read is a section by Ms. Picoult about her writing this book. She wrote Keeping Faith, she states, not to look at religion, but at belief. At how we can be spiritual without being religious and if we would/could entertain another's point of view about God, the world would be a better, safer, more tolerant place.Eunice Boeve, author of Ride a Shadowed Trail
Keeping Faith
I had to read this book for a book club and that is the only reason why I finished reading it. It dragged on and on and on- a lot of fluff with religion thrown in. I can see how someone could see the "deeper message," but the book was boring. And for 400 pages, it is almost a waste of time. Maybe if the book was half the size I would have somewhat enjoyed it and given it 3.5 stars.
Keeping Faith
You can read other reviews for the plot.What an awful book.I should have known when I was reading it that something completely outlandish was going to happen toward the end.I didn't even enjoy the book, just kept thinking it could get better.
Keeping Faith
I NEVER READ ANY OF JODI PICOULT'S BOOKS KEEPING FAITH WAS EXCELLENT AND I WOULD RECOMMOND IT TO ALLI JUST TOOK TWO OF HER OTHERS BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARYGREAT READING