’A stunning debut. Robert Wiersema’s novel is original, thought-provoking and downright wonderful’

--MICHAEL CONNELLY

’I wept over this book as I read it, and I’m still haunted by it. Wiersema’s compassion for us all shines through in writing that is vivid and very often disturbingly powerful. He is a beautiful writer, and this is a beautiful book’

--GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ

Tragedy can strike at any time. In a single moment of distraction, in one instant’s miscalculation.

On a beautiful spring day three-year-old Sherry Barrett is injured in a hit-and-run accident. Her devastated parents, Simon and Karen, wait by her bedside, hoping for a miracle...one that doesn’t come. Told that she will never recover, they agree to remove her from life support. And then the miracle occurs. Sherry doesn’t die. But nor does she wake.

Under the pressure of caring for their child, the fissures in Simon and Karen’s marriage become gaping wounds and the family is pushed to the point of collapse. And then pushed even further by the undeniable fact that their little girl, trapped in her living death, has become a source of healing miracles.