Confessions of a Closet Catholic

I felt extremely close to Jussy's character in the book Confessions of a Catholic. In high school I dated a boy who was half Catholic and half Jewsih. Growing up a methodist my entire life, I had only been exposed to the Christian religion. Even though my boyfriend's family did not practice either religions, except for the holidays, I always had a fun time when the did celebrate the Jewish holidays. There is so much tradition that I was able to see with the Seder before passover. The stories told, the food that represents different aspects, and the family feel that is associated with it. I had never felt that sense of family and tradition for a religious holiday before. I had often thought that if we ended up tsaying together, that I would want our children to be raised with awareness of their Jewish heritage. So, in that way, I related to Justine's character because I had questions and was intruiged by a religion that I was not brought up in. The other way, was that I in the past week I lost my grandmother. She had fallen, become weak, and a month later passed away. The times in the book when Jussy's mother came over to Mac's house to tell her the news, or show up at school, those were very real times for me. In the end, I didn't have a revelation, and start going back to Sunday services, but I have to say that there is a spiritual connection there that there wasn't before. I think that if someone is going through a death, even though it is hard to read at the time, you will be able to become closer to Jussy's character, and really understand where Littman is coming from when she writes this novel.