The Girl Who Slept with God: A Novel

The Girl Who Slept with God: A Novel

â€œFine, carefully wrought .Â . . reading this novel [is] a heartening experience.â€Â â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œBrelinskiâ€™s page-turning debut is full of humor, insight, and imaginative sympathy. Think of it as the annunciation of a new talent.â€Â â€”The Wall Street Journal

â€œA revelation.â€Â â€”Vanity Fair

â€œ[Brelinski] had readers hooked from page 1.â€Â â€”Elle

For Fans of Celeste Ngâ€™sÂ Everything I Never Told YouÂ and Meg Wolitzerâ€™sÂ The Interestings, an entrancing literary debut about religion, science, secrets, and the power and burden of family from recent Wallace Stegner Fellow Val Brelinski

Set in Arco, Idaho, in 1970, Val Brelinskiâ€™s powerfully affecting first novel tells the story of three sisters: young Frances, gregarious and strong-willed Jory, and moral-minded Grace. Their father, Oren, is a respected member of the community and science professor at the local college. Yet their motherâ€™s depression and Graceâ€™s religious fervor threaten the seemingly perfect family, whose world is upended when Grace returns from a missionary trip to Mexico and discovers sheâ€™s pregnant withâ€”she believesâ€”the child of God.

Distraught, Oren sends Jory and Grace to an isolated home at the edge of the town. There, they prepare for the much-awaited arrival of the baby while building a makeshift family that includes an elderly eccentric neighbor and a tattooed social outcast who drives an ice cream truck.

The Girl Who Slept with God is a literary achievement about a familyâ€™s desperate need for truth, love, purity, and redemption.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Viking
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-08-04
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Viking
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-08-04
Format	Kindle eBook

The Girl Who Slept with God: A Novel

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