I just got done with Keeping Faith by Jodie Picoult, my now 3rd book from her. All and more, bought after reading My Sisters Keeper, which I loved and which possibly might have been her best book?

This book was incredible dramatic, and God, oh so unrealistic. A little girl starts to quote bible verses and developes bleeding stigmata, after her Dad ran off with another woman. A custody hearing takes place. Faith goes into cardiac arrest twice, and noone knows why. She oh so surprisingly survives of course. The hearing goes on for about 150 pages, but you never hear the judge say who wins, and why. In the end Faiths stigmata are all of a sudden gone.

Isnt it a bit drastic to let a character develop stigmata as a form of psychosomatic response to a bad situation?

I do believe that the children in Fatima and Bernadette had appearances of the virgin Mary. I might possibly believe that someone found Jesus in her frying pan.

But for this book, I may just not be catholic enough. 😯