One blessing of convalescence is having a chance to read. Allysha recommended Peace Like a River, a national bestseller by Leif Enger. It was a happy surprise when a sister in my ward brought it by for me with a bouquet of lavender tulips in accompaniment. I loved the book! I recommend you find and copy and read it for enlightenment, uplift and just plain delight.
"The novel is narrated by Reuben Land, an eleven-year-old boy suffering from severe asthma who lives with his unusual family in a small Minnesota town in 1962. His mother abandoned the family years before; his younger sister and best friend, Swede, writes epic poetry at age eight; and his father, Jeremiah, a school janitor, is a man of faith who quietly performs miracles – one of which is to bring Reuben to life after he is born dead."
There much more than that but I'll let you discover it.
I am also reading Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. "The novel is the fictional autobiography of the Reverend John Ames, an elderly congregationalist pastor in the small, secluded town of Gilead, Iowa who knows that he is dying of a heart condition. At the beginning of the book, the date is established as 1956, and Ames explains that he is writing an account of his life for his 7-year-old son, who will have few memories of him as an adult."
Another great read. Both books have underlying religious themes.
(Book descriptions from Wikipedia.)
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I read Peace Like a River several years ago. The phrase "Peace like a river" has long been a favorite refrain of mine, and so I was a little annoyed when a book came out with that as the title. But the book was wonderful and only deepened by love of the line.
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