• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2011 July #1
  This unique title may be one of the hardest to find with a search in the catalog, but it perfectly captures the book's focus and flow: its triune breakdown mirrors the book's three-part structure. Written in a first-person, memoir fashion, part one highlights Greenhouse's childhood and adolescent struggles against her devout Christian Science (CS) parents, particularly her father. Whether it's a case of the chicken pox or faltering eyesight, her father's response involves prayer and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy—anything but a trip to the doctor. The focus shifts to the mother in the second (and largest) section. Greenhouse is in her twenties and spends most of 1986 watching her mother die. Many of the conversations she recounts from that year involve the particulars of CS, specifically beliefs about healing and medicine. In the chapter-length final section, Greenhouse is 15 years removed from her mother's passing and reflects on her spiritual journey toward God—without the strictures of what she considers a misguided religion. A touching book that puts a human face on Christian Science. Copyright 2011 Booklist Reviews.

LUCIA GREENHOUSE, a graduate of the Emma Willard School and Brown University, lives with her husband and four children in Westchester County, New York. This is her first book.