The healing party / Micheline Lee.
Publication details: Carlton, Vic. : Black Inc, 2016.Description: 293 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781863958431
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | LEE | Available | 064734 |
'A wild family drama, shot through with a furious, pure and grieving love' - Helen Garner An electrifying debut novel about faith and lies, the spirit and the flesh. When her mother is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Natasha returns to the home she fled many years before. But her father, a Charismatic Christian, has not changed: he is still the domineering yet magnetic man she ran from, and the family is still in his thrall. He comes home one night with astonishing news: he has received a message from God that his wife is to be healed, and they must hold a party to celebrate. As Natasha and her sisters prepare for the big event - and the miracle - she struggles to reconcile her family's faith with her sense that they are pretending.