I'd begun this review and never finished it, found it in my Draft folder.
This was the first book written by the author of a A Girl Named Zippy. That book was a memoir of growing up in Ohio.
A young woman leaves school just before getting her PhD and returns to her home, unwilling to pursue life. A local minister is beyond the interest level of his parishioners and is enlisted by her mother to bring her out of her funk. Between them, they try to help two little girls who've lost their mother to a violent murder. It's a strange combination and it took a while before the implausible story hooked me.
There's a lot of reflection on life and religion and family in this story that makes it well worth reading.
Published: 2002 Read: February 2018 Genre: Fiction
