Book: Keeping Faith

Author: Jodi Picoult

Review: Because this author has several best sellers, I picked one out from the library.  This one was pretty good.  Mariah catches her husband in the act, when she drops by home with her daughter Faith and his girlfriend walks out of the shower.  It is revealed that Mariah had tried to kill herself seven years before, and her husband had her committed.  After Faith has an unusual accident, she starts talking to an imaginary friend she refers to as her Guard.  Mariah takes her daughter to a psychiatrist because of her own history, and the fact that she was medicated when she was pregnant with Faith.  The doctor can find nothing wrong with her, and suggests that Faith my be speaking to her God, not her Guard.  The doctor innocently reports this at a conference, and the story falls into the hands of a TV show host, who makes a living debunking religious stories.  Faith's story becomes more believable when she brings her dead grandmother back to life after a heartattack. 

This was a page turner, I kept wondering how they were going to resolve the little girls relationship with God.