The Atonement Child
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| Author | Francine Rivers |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Christian novel |
| Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers |
| Publication date | 14 September 1997 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 375 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0842300414 (first edition, hardback) |
The Atonement Child is a 1997 novel by the American author Francine Rivers. It deals with the themes of unwanted pregnancy and abortion.
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In one terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, and her doting family torn apart. Her seemingly rock-solid faith is pushed to the limits as she faces the most momentous choice of her life--to embrace or to end the untimely life within her in which her family is pushing for.
Diana is a young Christian college girl at a Bible College, in one horrific night, rape shatters her life, and then the following pregnancy may shatter her faith. As her pro-life boyfriend suddenly finds abortion acceptable, and her pro life school informs her that unless her pregnancy disapears she will be expelled, she is forced to wonder about her own former pro life views. At home she finds her family torn apart as her mother admits to an abortion before she had Diana that made her incapable of having children for several years, and her grandmother admits to an abortion that was forced on her for "health reasons" that is now the root of her breast cancer. Diana first driven to extremes is eventually driven to isolate herself so that she can make the decision on her own. As her mother's "Atonement Child", Diana must come to the decision on whether or not to have her own "Atonement Child".
