Can I get an amen?
By: Sarah Healy
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780451236777
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life; FICTION / Contemporary Women; Life change events; Adult children living with parents; Mothers and daughers; Fiction
Description: "Growing up, Ellen Carlisle was a Christian: She went to Jesus camp, downed stale Nilla Wafers at Sunday school, and never, ever played with Ouija boards. Now, years later, when infertility prevents her from giving her ambitious attorney husband a family, she finds herself on the brink of divorce, unemployed, and living with her right-wing, born-again Christian parents in her suburban New Jersey hometown. There the schools are private, the past is public, and blessings come in lump sums. Then Ellen meets a man to whom she believes she can open her heart, and she begins to think that maybe it's true that everything happens for a reason--until all that was going well starts going very badly and Ellen is finally forced to dig deep to find her own brand of faith"--