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Keeping Faith: A Novel (P.S.)
by: Jodi Picoult

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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060878061
ISBN: 0060878061
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: March 01, 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Studio: Harper Perennial
Sales Rank: 59648

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One of America's most powerful and thought-provoking novelists, New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult brilliantly examines belief, miracles, and the complex core of family.

When the marriage of Mariah White and her cheating husband, Colin, turns ugly and disintegrates, their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, is there to witness it all. In the aftermath of a rapid divorce, Mariah falls into a deep depression -- and suddenly Faith, a child with no religious background whatsoever, hears divine voices, starts reciting biblical passages, and develops stigmata. And when the miraculous healings begin, mother and daughter are thrust into the volatile center of controversy and into the heat of a custody battle -- trapped in a mad media circus that threatens what little stability the family has left.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Thought provoking
This was a very good book. Very thought provoking and the character development was excellent.

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- Eh...
While I enjoy (greatly) Picoult's ability to make the reader see "the other side" of situations, I can't say that I'm a huge fan of her writing. I feel that she takes the easy way out when it comes to developing her central characters here. For example, I had a really difficult time getting through the beginning of the book -- Mariah had me wanting to put the book down and never pick it back up. The only word that kept going through my mind was "pathetic". It's as if the author wanted to draw her in the most extreme light possible so that her transformation throughout the novel would seem all the more amazing. If anything it had me wanting to shake the woman, were she real. I was literally uncomfortable while reading about her because I disliked her so much, to the point of disappointment ... Read More

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- Too Long
Too Long

I don't like to judge an author by one book, so when I was disappointed with My Sister's Keeper, I decided to still try another one of Jodi Piccoult's novels and see what happens.

Judging from her positive reviews and her success as a writer, I need to accept that maybe I'm just not a fan of Jodi's Piccoult's writing. Reading the summary of the novel certainly got my attention because the idea of a child healer was fantastic, but the novel was just too long. At about page 286, I found myself forcing myself to finish it. I skipped large sections, then couldn't take it anymore when, towards the end, the author repeated the whole novel through the court scene! For no apparent reason, people kept changing their minds with their beliefs in whether the little girl ... Read More

Rating:

- Picoult is excellent
Picoult is an excellent writer and develops her characters better than anyone I've ever read. The story moves quickly, and is fiercely entertaining. This book makes you think, and wonder, and question. Picoult has a gift for picking these types of topics. Her books are long, but she researches her subjects well to give you a full taste of the topic, but she lets you make your own mind up. The book is redeming and you fall in love with Faith, and all the main characters. The ending builds quickly and then at the end you are left with questions. I am not fan of that, I like to know what the author is trying to tell me, especially when I am that commited to a book (long). I still think her book My Sisters Keeper is better, but it's a masterpiece.
Read that one first if you have not. Keeping Faith ... Read More

Rating:

- Eh. Classic Jodi.
This book had SO much potential. It wasn't bad but it really wasn't about you thought it was going to be about. You thought it was going to be about if Faith could see God or not and go into detail about it. It wasn't about that much at all, it was about a custody case and the cathloc church. And even in the end, I had to read it 3 times to make sense of what she was trying to say. And it still wasn't clear. It was good, it had it's moments, but I'm still waiting for something.

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