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Keeping Faith: A Novel (P.S.)
Keeping Faith: A Novel (P.S.)

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Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 154 reviews
Sales Rank: 35462

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 1.2

ISBN: 0060878061
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060878061
ASIN: 0060878061

Publication Date: March 1, 2006
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Product Description

One of America's most powerful and thought-provoking novelists, New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult brilliantly examines belief, miracles, and the complex core of family.

When the marriage of Mariah White and her cheating husband, Colin, turns ugly and disintegrates, their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, is there to witness it all. In the aftermath of a rapid divorce, Mariah falls into a deep depression -- and suddenly Faith, a child with no religious background whatsoever, hears divine voices, starts reciting biblical passages, and develops stigmata. And when the miraculous healings begin, mother and daughter are thrust into the volatile center of controversy and into the heat of a custody battle -- trapped in a mad media circus that threatens what little stability the family has left.




Customer Reviews:   Read 149 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars Riveting and fast pace   January 8, 2009
I was very happy that I bought this book. Once I started, I literally could not put it down, and I finished it in less than 24 hours despite having to work and to tend to my nine month-old son.
What I liked about this book most is the development of Mariah's character. At the beginning, I just wanted to shake some sense into her, but it was nice to see her turn around, become stronger and fight for her daughter...
Millie was also another of my favorite character. She herself never stopped believing that her daugher had it in her to not only become stronger, but be there for her granddaughter.
However, I had some disappointment at the very end of the book. I felt a definite loose end, a sense of unfinish. It's like I sensed something else developping, and bam... the whole thing is cut off. This is why I did not rate it a full five star, which otherwise it would have deserved.
All in all, this is a book that I definitely would recommend



3 out of 5 stars Should have been condensed   January 6, 2009
The book was very good...I love the way that Picoult writes; however, the story could have been about 50 pages shorter and still had the same affect. I got really bored through the court case when everything was repeated from earlier in the story for the case. It just didn't move fast enough from about page 200 on. It drug a little bit for me.
Don't get me wrong, I love the books of hers that I have read, but this one left a little to be desired.



5 out of 5 stars Thought provoking   December 25, 2008
This was a very good book. Very thought provoking and the character development was excellent.


3 out of 5 stars Eh...   December 19, 2008
While I enjoy (greatly) Picoult's ability to make the reader see "the other side" of situations, I can't say that I'm a huge fan of her writing. I feel that she takes the easy way out when it comes to developing her central characters here. For example, I had a really difficult time getting through the beginning of the book -- Mariah had me wanting to put the book down and never pick it back up. The only word that kept going through my mind was "pathetic". It's as if the author wanted to draw her in the most extreme light possible so that her transformation throughout the novel would seem all the more amazing. If anything it had me wanting to shake the woman, were she real. I was literally uncomfortable while reading about her because I disliked her so much, to the point of disappointment that the author couldn't take the time to make her character a bit more believable and less over-the-top. I mean, going to far as to have her rubbing the dent in the carpet out with her sneaker at her mother's house? Okay, I get it Jodi, she's high-strung and afraid of anything being less than perfect. You don't have to beat me over the head...


3 out of 5 stars Too Long   December 14, 2008
Too Long

I don't like to judge an author by one book, so when I was disappointed with My Sister's Keeper, I decided to still try another one of Jodi Piccoult's novels and see what happens.

Judging from her positive reviews and her success as a writer, I need to accept that maybe I'm just not a fan of Jodi's Piccoult's writing. Reading the summary of the novel certainly got my attention because the idea of a child healer was fantastic, but the novel was just too long. At about page 286, I found myself forcing myself to finish it. I skipped large sections, then couldn't take it anymore when, towards the end, the author repeated the whole novel through the court scene! For no apparent reason, people kept changing their minds with their beliefs in whether the little girl was a true healer or not. That was distracting and mentally exhausting.

Then there was the inconsistent way that the child healed people. Sometimes she did it through touch, other times she healed by just being in the same room with people. I also feel that after Faith saw Ian's brother at the hospital, there should have been a little more development with that storyline, especially since Ian was one of the main characters.

The mother struck me as an odd character. Protecting her child from the press didn't make her seem like a good mother, it made her appear selfish. I can understand her initial reaction towards the press, but it seemed to me that eventually, the mother would overlook the bothersome press and allow the greater purpose of the child's healing to work through people's lives. If the child could heal, it was obvious that is why God put her on this earth. It also bothered me that the mother would act so impulsively when putting her child on medication because Faith was seeing God. She didn't even hesitate to do so, which struck me as an unrealistic reaction. Since Faith didn't have behavioral problems and she wasn't hurting anyone, I would think that a mother would weigh more thought into placing her child on medication.

I believe I would have enjoyed this novel much more if it was condensed into a shorter version.


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