Saint Maybe

Okay, so VERY different from Sweep. This book is one of those books where it's really sad and almost makes your heart break because it takes place over a long span of time and you're watching the characters slowly deteriorate. Make any sense? Not really? Read One Hundred Years of Solitude. (If you really want to check that book out, click here: http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-Solitude-Oprahs-Book/dp/B0006V4LLW/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246373517&sr=8-5)
But this book was pretty good still.
Let me give a little detail: There's this dude, Ian, and he's about 19, and his brother just got married to a lady (Lucy) who was previously married and has two kids. She has a another baby girl shortly after they get married, too soon to be Ian's brother's baby, but Lucy's passing it off as premature. One night, Ian babysits for Lucy's kids and she doesn't come home, so his brother drives him home drunk. He tells his brother the hunch he has that Lucy's cheating on him and his brother commits suicide by driving into a wall when Ian gets out of the car. Shortly after, Lucy overdoses on sleeping pills. Ian is trying to figure out how to live with the guilt of indirectly killing two people when he finds the Church of the Second Chance. This is my favorite part of the book right here...
"So anyhow," he (Ian) said, "that's why I asked for that prayer. And I honestly believe it might have worked. Oh, it's not like I got an answer in plain English, of course, but... don't you think? Don't you think I'm forgiven?"
"Goodness, no," Reverend Emmett said briskly.
Ian's mouth fell open. He wondered if he had misunderstood. He said, "I'm not forgiven?"
"Oh, no."
(pg. 122)
Yep, it was a bit of a thick read, but a good book in the end.