Air We Breathe - by Christa Parrish (Paperback)

About the Book

In this poignant tale of healing, two deeply wounded women discover how each can help the other find hope and a new life.

Book Synopsis

New from the Winner of ECPA's Fiction Book of the Year

Seventeen-year-old Molly Fisk does not go outside. She's ruled by anxiety and only feels safe in the tiny tourist-town museum she and her mother run and call home. Yearning to live free but unable to overcome deep wounds from her past, she stays hidden away. Then the chance arrival of a woman Molly knew six years ago changes everything.

Six years ago, newly single Claire Rodriguez was an empty shell. Only in the unique friendship she strikes up with a young girl--a silent girl who'll only talk to Claire--does she see the possibility of healing. But one day the girl and her mother vanish, their house abandoned. What happened that drove them away? And how can Claire now offer Molly the same chance at finding a life anew?

From the Back Cover

From the author of
Home Another Way, Finalist for the 2009 ECPA Christian Book Award for Fiction and
Watch Over Me, Winner of the 2010 ECPA Christian Book Award for Fiction

Molly Fisk Needs the Courage to Face Her Fears.
What She Finds Instead is a Most Unexpected Friendship.

Seventeen-year-old Molly Fisk does not go outside. For so long she has run away from a moment long in the past, but she's not running anymore, she's hiding. Ruled by anxiety, she can only stare out the window of the tiny tourist-town museum she and her mother call home, longing to go outside--to maybe take a walk with the cute boy who works in the pizza place across the street.

Then the chance arrival of a woman Molly knew years ago changes everything.

Back then, Claire Rodriguez was an empty shell. Only in the unique friendship she struck up with a little girl--a silent girl who'd only talk to Claire--did she see the possibility of healing. But one day the girl and her mother vanished, their house left abandoned.

What happened that drove them away? And how can Claire now offer Molly the same chance at finding life anew?

"A fast-moving, suspenseful, enrapturing novel... Fans of Christian fiction with kick and psychological depth will be engaged and touched by Parrish's exciting third novel." --Booklist

"The Air We Breathe is a compelling and emotional novel about identity, redemption, and faith. Expect it to be poplar among women of all ages." --CBA Retailers & Resources

About the Author

A winner of Associated Press awards for her journalism, Christa Parrish now teaches literature and writing to high school students, is a homeschool mom, and lives near Saratoga Springs, New York. She is the author of Home Another Way, finalist for the 2009 ECPA Fiction Book of the Year, and Watch Over Me, which won the 2010 ECPA Fiction Book of the Year. Learn more at www.christaparrish.com.