Can I Get An Amen?
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Publisher Description
When the last thing you want is the one thing you need, you've got to have a little faith....
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.
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Ellen Carlisle, the center of Healy's debut novel, grew up the daughter of born-again Christian parents who believe everything is a blessing from Jesus or a challenge from Satan. Ellen's own limited faith is tested when she loses her job and her husband leaves her. With limited options, she moves back home, where church attendance is a requirement. Then she meets Mark, a minister, who seems the ideal guy, but she soon learns that he is more complicated than he appears. Family crises follow, and Ellen learns that faith is important and no one is perfect. Healy's supporting characters are charming, but the plot is trite and the novel can't decide if it's women's fiction or faith fiction.
