The Girl Who Slept With God

SET IN ARCO, IDAHO, IN 1970, Val Brelinski's powerfully affecting first. novel tells the story of three sisters: young Frances, gregarious and strong-willed Jory, and moral-minded Grace, Their father, Oren, is a respected member of the community and a science professor at the local college. Yet their mother's depression and Grace's religious fervor threaten the seemingly perfect family, whose world is upended when Grace returns from a missionary trip to Mexico and discovers she's pregnant with-she believes-the child of God.
The Girl Who Slept with God is a stunning literary achievement about a family's desperate need for truth, love, purity, and redemption.