Forever judy5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I know you wouldn’t have missed this for anything! Thank you God. It is not until the end of the book, when she spies blood in her undies, that she has an epiphany: “I know you’re there, God. In her quest, Margaret attends temple with her grandmother, church services with friends and, unwittingly, confession at a Catholic church (which she flees when she realizes she has nothing to tell the priest). “But if you aren’t any religion,” asks Margaret’s friend, “how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?” She puzzles over whether she should choose one religion over the other. It was about a girl trying to decide whether God really exists, about her dismay upon learning that her mother’s Christian parents disowned their daughter for marrying a Jew. “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” was also - and maybe even mostly - a story about an 11-year-old girl caught between the two belief systems of her parents’ families: Christianity and Judaism. I’m not sure it did, but we did love the book, and we discovered, to our delight, that it delved into topics even deeper than the physiological changes of the adolescent female body. ![]() Maybe a good novel would help pierce the veil of her denial? ![]()
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