I live in Atlanta, where there are several megachurches. And I think it's great that people are going there, and that they're getting what they need. But some people need different things. Some people need intimacy, because faith and spirituality is a very intimate thing, and sometimes people need it done in small doses rather than in huge doses.
A teenage girl finds that the best way she can deal with a family tragedy is to write letters, in Philip Beard's debut novel. Zoe is the little sister who dies in an accident on the same day the entire nation is gripped by a larger tragedy of its own.