My Sister Dilly
For six and a half years, a guilt-ridden Hannah Williams has focused all her efforts on returning to tiny Sugar Creek, Illinois, to help her sister Dilly readjust to life outside prison walls. Hannah sets aside her highly successful career as a respected investment counselor in California and her best friend, Mac, to do what she thinks is right. But she has never discussed her plans with Dilly and is shocked and hurt when her sister seems unappreciative. Hannah is also dismayed by her sister’s newfound faith, since years ago as children they agreed never to buy into their parents’ religious fervor. Lang’s contemporary Christian novel thoughtfully explores family obligations and differences within the context of a dysfunctional upbringing and its legacy of distrust and unhappiness. --Lynne Welch