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Even though I'm a mother and I get tired of protagonists my children's age upstaging the adults, it really worked in this case. Then there's the mysterious woman who seems connected somehow to that holy card of St.

Funny how the unique, personal detail can make a story or a poem universal, whereas an abstraction can't. A teenage girl tells the bereft mother to get on with her life -- now you're getting my attention.

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Some scenes are just horrifying, hard to read, but compelling, all the same. This is not an easy read. But it's a necessary read, for many. This would be a great story for book clubs and survivor-based discussion groups. And for anyone who reads for honest, brutal realism rather than 50 Shades of Fantasy. One person found this helpful. It has all too often been my experience that what is published today as "Catholic fiction" are books praising big families and touting the benefits of Natural Family Planning.

I'm pleased to say that Rachel's Contrition doesn't mention Natural Family Planning or birth control one time. It is the story of a mentally ill woman coming to grips with the death of an infant daughter who was left in a car. It is also the story of a horribly dysfunctional family whose apartment she rents. In the end, that part of the story just struck me as bizarre, it was just too unrealistic to ring true.

However, I did like Rachel's story. Rachel grew up as the child of a single mom, a mom who went from man to man, using them and never really loving them. She was from the wrong side of the tracks. In college she reinvented herself, got in with the right crowd and met and married a doctor. However, she always felt like she was acting, like she was playing a role rather than being herself. That insecurity, the death of the baby, and probably some post-partum depression caused her to have a breakdown.

Part of what helped her find her way back was St. Therese of Lisieux's Story of a Soul. Though she was not Catholic she found herself in a Catholic church talking to a priest. Still, it doesn't come across as preachy, but more along the lines of "you've tried other stuff, and it hasn't worked, how about trying this? It is one of those books where finding Jesus leads to healing in this life. Michelle Buckman is a good writer, a real wordsmith. Though published by a small Catholic press, this is not an amateur production. It is available both in paperback and e-book.

I definitely recommend it. I purchased this book with Amazon reward points and can say what I want about it but as you know I say what I want about anything I read. I bought this book for my 19 year old daughter and decided to read it first to make sure it was ok and that she would like it.

Keep in mind I am her dad, and this book is clearly what my buddies would kiddingly call "chick fiction". Well, the book is better than ok, and she'll be starting on it tomorrow. I think she may find it a tad slow actually, at times, very slow, but not Frodo crossing Mordor slow as she prefers page tuners, but I expect she'll like it.

The subject is heavy, and the author does a very good job getting you to believe you know the main character and are almost a part of her. I enjoyed Rachel's story very much, but I think there was a little too much of a request put on the readers to suspend belief as it wore down. What happens as it winds down wasn't as well written and thought out as what leads up to it.

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I still enjoyed it, but it got a bit hokey. I would have been more likely to give it 5 stars otherwise. I rarely read fiction but this one was well worth the read. Buckman's ability to hold your attention and draw you into the story is superb.

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You can't read this one fast enough because you never want to put it down. Buckman weaves a story that keeps you wondering and pulls so many pieces together that in the end, you are both surprised and delightfully satisfied.

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The characters will stay with you long after the book has been read. I've not heard of any novels on losing a child, by your own fault, to leaving the child in a car. It's a story of how true healing only comes through allowing Christ and His church to wrap their arms around you. I began reading this book a chapter a day in emails I receive from a Catholic website. I couldn't get enough so I bought the book and read it in a day. Therese's writings are so beautifully introduced to and displayed in the lives of the characters.

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