Living Right, Laila Ibrahim
Living Right, Laila Ibrahim
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Living Right

Author: Laila Ibrahim

Narrator: Susan Hanfield

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/23/2018

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

Jenn Henderson is proud of the church-centered life she's created for her family. She prays each morning, attends worship every Sunday, and confidently takes up the struggle to defend traditional marriage when she learns marriage licenses are being issued to gays and lesbians in nearby San Francisco. But the certainty that she is living right falters after her teenage son, Josh, swallows a bottle of sleeping pills. Her fear deepens when she discovers that Josh struggles with same-sex attraction. If she's living right, how can Josh be gay?

Desperate for a cure, Jenn and her husband send Josh to a Christian conversion therapy camp recommended by their trusted pastor. Jenn is unwavering in her faith that Josh can be transformed by the grace of God. But as the story unfolds, her husband, son, and daughters seem to be questioning her deepest values, threatening irreparable damage to the tight-knit Henderson family.

Author Laila Ibrahim tackles a subject directly out of the headlines in Living Right, an intimate story about a mother's struggle to reconcile her religious beliefs with her son's sexual orientation. Living Right strips away the politics of gay rights to reveal what's really at stake in this ongoing conflict: family. As with her debut novel, Yellow Crocus, Ibrahim's second novel explores an intimate and sensitive topic with insight and compassion.

About Laila Ibrahim

Laila Ibrahim is the acclaimed author of the bestselling novel Yellow Crocus. The characters in Living Right came to her while she was on a road trip through the Sierra Nevada mountains soon after she legally married her wife, Rinda. She's a devout Unitarian Universalist determined to plant seeds of love and justice in our hurting world. Ibrahim lives in a cohousing community in Berkeley, California, and is a mother of two young adult daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara

I just finished this insightful book with tears in my eyes. I would want every evangelical pastor, every Christian youth group leader, every Christian parent of teenagers to read this book. It's not a common issue for a novel nor is it an easy one. How does it effect the whole family if you learn (i......more

Goodreads review by Yvonne

Magnificent. Engaging and satisfying on all levels: emotionally, intellectually, spiritually. Feels very real and believable; once started I could hardly put it down. Loved the trajectory of the story and its power to reach those who may still be in confusion or pain over the issues it raises -- esp......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Jenn is content with her traditional household with Christian values. It brings her love and security, knowing that her husband is beside her with their studious children, she cannot ask for anything better. Not only is she grateful that she has a loving family, but the most important thing is that......more

I read the description of this novel and thought it sounded really fascinating. Jenn is a conservative Christian. As is the reality of life in the new millennium, she has ensconced herself in a little bubble of people and media that echo her views. Along with her church, Jenn even attends a demonstr......more