Fic­tion

Draw Near to Me

  • From the Publisher
September 1, 2025

Before a freak acci­dent lands devot­ed wife and moth­er Kristy Wein­stein in a coma, her hus­band, David, dis­cov­ers a dev­as­tat­ing secret she’d been keep­ing for months. While Kristy’s life hangs in the bal­ance, David, an OB with a God com­plex, must grap­ple with his demons to make deci­sions about his career, wife, teenage kids, and the new baby that has served as a joy­ful fam­i­ly dis­trac­tion from the roil­ing ten­sions of Kristy’s betray­al. Dur­ing David’s dark­est moment, a hos­pi­tal chap­lain, a rab­bi with a mes­mer­iz­ing voice, shares the sto­ry of Joseph’s encounter with his jeal­ous broth­ers dur­ing the famine. Draw near to me, Joseph says instead of push­ing them away. Ulti­mate­ly, Kristy’s coma serves as the cat­a­lyst for each char­ac­ter to heal by draw­ing near those who have dam­aged them the most, find­ing kin­ship in sur­pris­ing places. This is a time­ly sto­ry about the emo­tion­al and spir­i­tu­al work it takes to repair an impos­si­ble rup­ture in a mar­riage, a rela­tion­ship, a fam­i­ly, and in turn the larg­er com­mu­ni­ties in which we live, hope, and love.

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