Review #49
Heather Curridge feels as though she is not fulfilling God’s purpose for her life. She is a woman who, seemingly, has everything, a mansion on a lake, a loving son, a handsome heart-surgeon husband, yet still feels miserable inside. She doesn’t know what’s wrong with her, but something is wrong and she needs to find out what. When she crashes her truck into a ditch and staggers to a nearby house for help, she meets two elderly sisters, one a Quaker, the other a religions explorer. With her husband’s approval, she decides to stay with the sisters for a while. She stays 3 weeks. With their help along with a number of her friends and a crusty old nun running a downtown homeless shelter, she begins to find her answers. Her journey lasts all summer and into the fall and winter and takes her places she wouldn’t have gone before.
I have included this…From the Publishers Weekly Review because it says it better than I can:
“One of the most powerful voices in Christian fiction, Samson delivers what seems, on the surface, to be just another Christian women's novel, but in reality is a staggering examination of the Christian conscience. Samson's unflinching exploration of childhood bullying, as well as inner-city poverty and drug culture, are rivaled only by her portrayal of the soul-desiccating acquisitiveness in which many Christians engage, often in a misguided attempt to numb both their heartache and their awareness of God's potentially life-upending plans. Unlike many Christian novelists, Samson does not tidily resolve every single problem her heroine faces, but instead paints an emotionally and spiritually luminous portrait of a soul beckoned by God.”
My daughter, Marcy, recommended this book to me. I enjoyed it very much!
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