By Sheri Reynolds
320 pages; Putnam Publishing Group

In the end there is a miracle, though like most miracles, it takes an unpredictable form. Ninah must face with sudden clarity the things she must do for the sake of her own life, and her child's. She will come to understand at last that to embrace the life of the normal world can be a holy act.
Featured in Oprah's Book Club 1997