The writing is inspired. I am amazed at Sara Guen's understanding of human nature. She is able to show both the good and the bad of people, as well as the complexity of human existence. It is a book I will gladly read again.

The father in this book took an unusual turn when he decided not to pursue a professional career but to work at menial jobs (which he did with intellect and integrity). Alhtough he had many talents and may have been able to perform miracles, his decisions in life irrevocably impacted his children. The book was a fascinating look into the world of a family rejecting society's definition of how life should be lived.

Found the writer to be very annoying, stooping to uncouth. Everything in the first 160+ pages is obvious or trivial and overblown; the writer guilds the lily in almost each sentence, being unable to pass up any obvious quip. Somewhere around visiting Savannah, the writer drops the jock behavior, but manages to find her way back without much effort. Overall, found the book to be without substance. Such a book would be more understandable if written by an uneducated trophy wife, age about 25. This drivel coming from a highly educated woman is the more disturbing given that she is a psychiatrist (which, hello, she points out on a regular basis, over and over, several times in one short chapter - you get the point of this attempted parody); one would think that the diploma and license on Ms. Orion's wall should give her enough security in that fact but it obviously doesn't.