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For the second time in her marriage, Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, and Faith, their seven-year-old daughter, witnesses every painful minute. In the aftermath of a sudden divorce, Mariah struggles with depression and Faith seeks solace in a new friend -- a friend who may or may not be imaginary. — Faith talks to her "Guard" constantly and begins to recite passages from the Bible -- a book she's never read. Fearful for her daughter's sanity, Mariah sends her to several psychiatrists. Yet when Faith develops stigmata and begins to perform miraculous healings, Mariah wonders if her daughter -- a girl with no religious background -- might indeed be seeing God. As word spreads and controversy heightens, Mariah and Faith are besieged by believers and disbelievers alike; they are caught in a media circus that threatens what little stability they have left.
What are you willing to believe? Is Faith a prophet or a troubled little girl? Is Mariah a good mother facing an impossible crisis...or a charlatan using her daughter to reclaim the attention her unfaithful husband withheld? As the story builds to a climactic battle for custody, Mariah must discover that spirit is not necessarily something that comes from religion but from inside oneself.
Fascinating, thoughtful, and suspenseful, Keeping Faith explores a family plagued by the media, the medical profession, and organized religion in a world where everyone has an opinion but no one knows the truth. At her controversial and compelling best, Jodi Picoult masterfully explores the moment when boundaries break down, when illusions become reality, and when the only step left to take is a leap of faith.
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Miracles, Faith, Literature, Custody of children, Fiction, Stigmatization, Mothers and daughters, Parent and child, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2008-09-21, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, psychological, Mother and child, fiction, New hampshire, fiction, Divorced people, fictionEdition | Availability |
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Keeping Faith: A Novel (P.S.)
February 21, 2006, Harper Perennial
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Keeping Faith: A Novel (P.S.)
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Keeping Faith
October 2001, Rebound by Sagebrush
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Keeping Faith
May 2000, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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in English
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Keeping Faith: A Novel
April 25, 2000, Harper Perennial
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in English
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