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I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion
Sometimes funny, sometimes startling--and featuring a variety of settings, cultures, and beliefs--these twelve original stories evoke dilemmas of faith and identity that are familiar to us all. The anthology brings together a powerful mix of award-winning contributors: Jennifer Armstrong, Margaret Peterson Haddix, M. E. Kerr, Gregory Maquire, Kyoko Mori, Jess Mowry, Naomi...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
October 1st 2000
by HarperCollins Publishers
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Nov 26, 2012
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This collection of short stories for teens and young adults focuses on various faith: Jehovah's Witnesses, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims; and teenage issues like pregnancy, family relationships, coming of age. I believe this book appeals to many readers because everyone can find something interesting and ponder upon some more philosophical questions. Most of contributing writers are well known for their novels for teens and adults and this guarantees great writing.
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This was a beautiful book. The line 'you think G-d has *boobs*?' 'you think She has a *wanker*?' made me laugh so hard I got several frightened looks. But yeah, this book goes through three girls finding out they're pregnant, going through pregnancy and giving birth, a n odd boy who insists on calling G-d a 'She', a girl who believes in water, and other stories.
Thematic short stories that, overall, bored me. It's not like there was anything wrong with them, I just wasn't very interested.
Purchased this book as gift for my cousin-in-law's Bar Mitzvah. It sounded so interesting I picked up a copy from the library for myself.
UPDATE: Well the gift was given before I had the chance to finish reading. The receiver (and his mom for that matter) was very interested in the book so I was pleased with my choice. That being the case, I lost my motivation to continue reading. Plus my library copy was due so I didn't both finished. I read 3.5 stories and they were alright. Would have been coo...more
UPDATE: Well the gift was given before I had the chance to finish reading. The receiver (and his mom for that matter) was very interested in the book so I was pleased with my choice. That being the case, I lost my motivation to continue reading. Plus my library copy was due so I didn't both finished. I read 3.5 stories and they were alright. Would have been coo...more
A book of short stories about various teenager's brush with some type of religion...
Ehhh.... it's something to read...
Ehhh.... it's something to read...
This book is filled with great, inspiring short stories. You'll enjoy it.
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Marilyn Singer was born in the Bronx (New York City) on October 3, 1948 and lived most of her early life in N. Massapequa (Long Island), NY. She attended Queens College, City University of New York, and for her junior year, Reading University, England. She holds a B.A. in English from Queens and an M.A. in Communications from New York University.
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