The Opposite of Hallelujah

by Anna Jarzab

For eight of her sixteen years Carolina Mitchell's older sister Hannah has been a nun in a convent, almost completely out of touch with her family--so when she suddenly abandons her vocation and comes home, nobody knows quite how to handle the situation, or guesses what explosive secrets she is hiding.

• ISBN10: 0385907249
• ISBN13: 9780385907248
• Publish Date: 9 October 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 8 March 2017
• Publish Country: IN
• Imprint: Random House USA Inc
• Format: Hardcover (Library Binding)
• Pages: 452
• Language: English

Reviews

[Joséphine]

Once I started reading, I could not put this book down.

It is not normal to claim that a sister who is alive is dead. Yet this is exactly what Caro did. Caro denied Hannah's existence after she withdrew into a convent. It is that lie that plants the seed for the coming events and also the recounts of their childhood. Anna Jarzab also did a lovely job of tackling the issue how these two had to reconstruct their sisterly relationships after basically becoming estranged.

'The Opposite of Hallelujah' was a heart-wrenching novel as it grappled with overcoming terrible mistakes of the past that still overshadowed the present and the future, and with personal faith and beliefs.