Very few books approach the subject of church life & all its eccentricities from a non-proseletyzing point of view Explores the concept of "seekers": in her words, "people who have rejected the faith in which they were raised, or were raised in no particular faith, yet feel a need to acknowledge and explore their spirituality. Most often, what brings them through the door of a church is some crisis or significant change – the birth of a child, the death of a loved one, a downsizing or a divorce or a diagnosis. In the face of any of these, they feel a need for what they can most often only call something." Though Anglican membership is still declining, there remains an active outreach (a theme here) & the desire to grow Compare to: Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me, Olive Kitteridge; Jim Crace, Quarantine; John Updike, In the Beauty of the Lilies Like Annabel Lyon & Kathleen Winter, Miller was someone our editor 'discovered'—and while her reputation hasn't taken off in the same way, she's every inch as talented Winner of the Flare Fiction Contest & Third-Prize winner of the CBC Literary Competition Shortlisted for the National Magazine Award for Fiction and the Journey Prize (3x)