Letters to Saint Lydia by Melinda Johnson, tells the story about Lydia, as her life is being turned upside down. She's getting ready to leave home for college, her family has converted to Orthodox Christianity without her, one of her friends is pregnant, and she will soon be facing the trials and temptations that every young adult faces when they go out on their own for the first time. Lydia needs a friend right now, and she finds it unexpectedly in an icon of St. Lydia. Lydia pours her troubles in letters to St. Lydia, who guides her through her time of troubles with love and compassion. Paperback, 208 pages.
