I thought I'd read every Jodie Picoult book and then I ran across this one. I don't know how it slipped by me.

Mariah White and her young daughter, Faith, returned home one day to their husband/father only to be surprised
to find his girlfriend in the shower and him, dressed in only a towel.
This precipitated the father moving out and the beginning of divorce proceedings.

Faith acquired an imaginary friend that she called 'my guard'. She began to quote Bible scriptures and even
developed stigmata, even though she had not a thread of religious knowledge. When her grandmother died
suddenly, Faith had a message from her 'guard', (which others had decided meant 'God',) and she
resurrected her grandmother.

Cults, Catholics priests, Jewish rabbis and the media began to hound Mariah and Faith. One of the main
adversaries was an atheist who had a widely watched cable tv show in which he looked for 'miracles' to debunk.
The husband/father remarried and sought custody of Faith because he thought Mariah was somehow causing the
painful bleeding in Faith's hands.

As with all of her books, Picoult manages to cover several social problems within a single set of covers: mental
disorders, mass hysteria, broken families, miracles,and love in several forms. I love her courtroom scenes and
this book contains a good one.