num_pages: 320
description: A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover a dark secret about their father the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch that upends their lives and communitya coming-of-age story of family identity and the delicate line between faith and deception.Luke Nolan has led The Hope congregation for over a decade while his wife and daughters patiently uphold what it means to live righteously. Made famous by a viral sermon on purity co-written with his eldest daughter Abigail Luke is the prototype of a modern preacher: tall handsome a spellbinding speaker. But his youngest daughter Caroline has started to notice the cracks in their comfortable life. She is certain that her perfect pristine sister is about to marry the wrong manand Caroline has slid into sin with a boy shes known her entire life wondering why God would care so much about her virginity anyway.When it comes to light six weeks before Abigails wedding that Luke has been having an affair with another woman the entire Nolan family falls into a tailspin. Caroline seizes the opportunity to be alone with her sister. The two girls flee to the ranch they inherited from their maternal grandmother far removed from the embarrassing drama of their parents and the prying eyes of the community. But with the date of Abigails wedding fast approaching the sisters will have to make a hard decision about which familial bonds are worth protecting.An intimate coming-of-age story and a modern womans read God Spare the Girls lays bare the rabid love of sisterhood and asks what we owe our communities our families and ourselves.
language: English
title: God Spare the Girls
publisher: William Morrow