She Needed Me

A funny and elegant meditation on the search for faith, love, and self-discipline. We care about Weaver, though he seems a bit brainwashed by his pro-life sect, because he tempers the sincere desire for moral certainties with great humanity. His life is aimless, but he does no harm. He is an astute skeptic when it comes to his religious group. He falls for a "fallen" woman while valiantly struggling to reconcile his ridiculous moral absolutes with fuzzy gray realities. Beautifully written, the book offers no easy answers to moral ambiguities, which is exactly the point.