The Sweetness of Tears: A Novel
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ISBN: 0061780103 / Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, May 2011
When faith and fact collide, Jo March, wrestling with doubts about who she is, embarks on an emotional journey where she meets a host of relatives from diverse backgrounds whose experiences are indelibly intertwined with her own.
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"Jo March--family member of an Evangelical Christian Dynasty and early questioner of her own faith--knows that there is something she is not being told about her own past. She intends to find out. Told from multiple generational and cultural viewpoints, The Sweetness of Tears skillfully interweaves the lives and stories of Jo's relatives, many of whom she never knew existed. She travels from California to Chicago, Pakistan to Iraq, chasing loose threads that she hopes will lead to the truth and understanding of her own beginnings that she so craves. As Jo begins to discover who she is, what she learns above all else is that nothing is ever as it seems, and those with the strongest faith, are those who once doubted it the most. "--
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