lphr3ads 's review for:

Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

4.0

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I heard about this book from my high school book club president. She read it and said it was good, so I thought, "What the hell, why not?" I have never been big on religion, though I was raised Cathelic. I was confused with the ending of the book when young Faith is talking to empty space, but addresses God. Her mother, Mariah, checks up o her and goes back downstairs. My question is is the God Faith is talking to her mother? or did "God" appear to her in her mother's form? I also resent the fact that the legal system has no sense when it comes to institutionalizing depressed people. Faith's father, Colin, had an affair with another woman in their own home and was caught red-handed. I hate cheaters. I thought Colin was incredibly selfish and stupid. I think the only reason he wanted custody of Faith was to ease his own guilty about abandoning her for another woman and starting a new family. I also resented the fact that he didn't believe his daughter when she said she was talking to God. Isn't it parental instinct to defend your child? Doesn't your child's mental health and honor count? Mariah, Faith's mother, is a strong woman, but with human emotions. She also reminded me of me. She was non-confrontational with her husband when the issues of their marriage was brought up. She was suicidal after she caught her husband cheating on her for the first time, but I'm not saying I'm suicidal. I'm just saying that she had the feelings of not being good enough for anybody and is trying her best but always ending up short. I was happy when Ian Fletcher, an ambitious atheist, falls for plain Mariah and they ed up together when the judge rules in Mariah's favor. Whether or not Faith was truly talking to God I am not certain, there are some who can and some who pretend to be, but how can you tell? You just have to have faith (pun not intended):]