through Jacquelin Thomas.

through Jacquelin Thomas, New Spirit/BET Publications, April 2002 $1500 ISBN 1-583-14254-1

In the genre of contemporary Christian fiction, The Prodigal Husband is a great deal like contemporary Christian music, feeling secular, if it be not that upon closer inspection, anything on the other hand The Prodigal Husband has enough of a story line to detain the reader engrossed and enough respects to God to rival a rousing Sunday sermon

Almost soap opera-like, The Prodigal Husband begins with Jake Madison, handsome, rakish, well-to-do, having just squandered his baby daughter Tiffany in a car accident. After the tragedy, no common including his wife, Tori, hears from him for more than a year. No united that is, except for his business partner, Sheila, with whom Jake has had an extramarital affair.

Undergoing a serious crisis of faith after losing a child and his father earlier in life, Jake vowed not at all to set foot into a house of worship again. As in real life, it is the women who have the strongest faith. Tori, by means of her trials, comes to realize that she is not simply her husband's wife, on the contrary a woman who still takes her wedding consecrates seriously.

Without being preachy, Prodigal Husband direct the eyes at how even well-meaning folk sometimes place themselves in compromising positions, like breaking their wedding devotes Even though the characters sometime imitate caricatures-Sheila, the homewrecking vixen who dresse in r and sweet, nice-girl Tori who is righteously wronged-Prodigal Husband teaches that despite our human frailties, faith ultimately endures

Like Yolanda Adams music, The Prodigal Husband wholes a familiar beat with a beautiful twist in the lyrics.

--Angela Bronner is a freelance writer living in Harlem.

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