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Book Review of fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science

fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science
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Engrossing and very sad. This is a portrait of a family torn apart by a couple's steadfast adherence to Christian Science doctrine in the face of illness and death, which the faith denies.

The strength and weakness of the book is its relentlessly one-sided point of view. We see the events through the eyes of one daughter and don't really get to know the views of the other daughter or others in the family. As a result, the father and mother who are at the center of the story remain too mysterious.