When Dorie Winslow’s daughter, Phoebe, announces that she’s joined Teens for Christ and has been born again, Dorie, a free-thinking, widowed English professor, is appalled. “I knew you were going to the rec center,” she gasps, “but I thought you were playing ping pong, not being dipped in the blood of the lamb.” Determined to deter Phoebe, Dorie unearths a 1970’s journal chronicling her own intimate encounter with a maverick guru. She finally confronts the guilty marital secret that has paralyzed her emotionally, and, when Phoebe suffers a near-fatal accident, rediscovers a personal faith that frees her to love again.
|