The Prodigal Child

Bobbi Reynolds had only one dream--to be a mother. Her and her husband, Rhett, tried for nearly two decades to get pregnant and then later to adopt, but the dream never seemed to be in the cards. Though her faith was shaken, she prayed each night to be shown the reasons behind this, but no answers were given to her. As a way to mask this pain, she buried herself in work, as a teacher and then later as a principal. Working with other people's children gave her some of the pleasure that she had missed in being a parent herself. Then unexpectedly, in middle age, Bobbi's dream came true when she baffled doctors and became pregnant with Clara. The little girl brought a whole new surge of energy into her life.And then tragedy struck. Just short months after Clara was born, Bobbi was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and was left again asking God questions that seemed to go unanswered. She struggled to fight the cancer, but it eventually did her in, and with her little girl sitting on her hospital bed as she closed her eyes for the last time, she left this earth and went into the ambiguity of death. And there, is where she ran into the creator of the universe, whom she had a lot of questions for--and He had an eternity in which to answer them.The Prodigal Child is Cereghino's 14th novel, and one which attempts to tackle some of the most uncertain and difficult of questions in the simplest of ways. Much in the vein of "Conversations with God," meets "It's a Wonderful Life," and "A Christmas Carol," The Prodigal Child sees it's main character going back to some of the best and worst memories of her past, present and future, and having them explained by God, as to why they were important to her eternity and her salavation, and to the eternity of her young daughter--now left behind to grow up without a mother. And more importantly, it looks at how each of us are prodigal children, looking for the way home, even if we don't exactly know the way.