There are no easy answers, but together they may nonetheless find hope, comfort, and love. Liz isn't sure she believes it, but she does know the service gives her mother comfort - something no one else can seem to do at all.Īs Liz and Nathan become closer, and the summer draws nearer to its bitter end, questions of faith, mortality, and spirituality come to the forefront of their intimate friendship. It also discusses faith in the context of someone who does not believe in a god, also a deeply personal decision.

Ever since Liz's grandmother Bunny died, Liz's mother hasn't been the same she's even started attending a spiritualist church that claims it can contact Bunny on the Other Side. Wittlinger has penned an important book that explores faith as a deeply personal decision that does not require a logical or rational explanation. Liz has been coping with tough questions like this all summer. What do you say to someone whose mother is dying? Ellen Wittlinger was the critically acclaimed author of the teen novels Parrotfish, Blind Faith, Sandpiper, Heart on My Sleeve, Zigzag, and Hard Love (an. Ellen Wittlinger was the critically acclaimed author of the teen novels Parrotfish, Blind Faith, Sandpiper, Heart on My Sleeve, Zigzag, and Hard Love (an American Library Association. Liz just isn't sure she's the right person. Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both of them could use a friend. She has leukemia and she came here to die.' Blind faith in authority is a feature of religion not science.

'I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else. RT woodymatters: We are required not to simply take on blind faith the statements of authoritiesWe need to do our own homework.

Blind Faith by Ellen Wittlinger