This is the story of hope and faith, of love and loss, of life and death. Wittlinger has penned a beautiful story in BLIND FAITH. As Liz enters into a tenuous friendship with Nathan bordering on a first love, and takes Courtney under her wing, she's confused by her father's anger, her mother's obsession with communicating with her dead mother, and the fact that life in Tobias isn't as calm and easy as she'd always believed it to be. Their mother, Lily, is dying of leukemia and has come home to spend her final days with her mother, dubbed by Liz as Mrs. There's Courtney, and a total joy, and fifteen-year-old Nathan, who always seems so angry. Added to that is the new family who has moved in across the street.
For him, religion is filled with hypocrites and fools, and the crazies that attend Singing Creek are the worst of the lot-they hold out hope to those who have lost someone they love, convincing them that they can really "talk" to the dearly departed's spirit.įor Liz, these new arguments of her parent's is shaking up her once comfortable life. Liz is curious enough to agree to accompany her the following Saturday, but Liz's dad is none too pleased with the developments. Because now she's found religion-or, in this case, Spiritualism, where the congregation and leaders believe they can communicate with the spirits of the dead.Īfter her mom's first visit to Singing Creek, the Spiritualist Church, she comes home acting alive for the first time in weeks. That was almost preferable, though, to what happens when her mother snaps out of her funk and finally leaves the darkened comfort of her bedroom. Although Liz understands that her mother and Bunny had a special bond, were more like sisters, in fact, than mother and daughter, Liz doesn't understand the extreme depression. For weeks her mom wouldn't get out of bed, wouldn't eat dinner with Liz and her father, wouldn't even brush her hair. It's even worse now that her mother seems to have gone crazy. It was bad enough when fifteen-year-old Liz Scattergood's grandmother, Bunny, died.
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