Val Brelinski’s novel “The Girl Who Slept with God” traces the upheaval in an evangelical family when their daughter returns from a service mission convinced that she is carrying the child of God. Brelinski appears Aug. 11 at Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Co.
Coming-of-age fiction often features young protagonists who mature after they are separated from their parents, either because they have run away or been orphaned. In her first novel, “The Girl Who Slept With God” (Viking, 368 pp., $27.95), Val Brelinski takes a different tack, with her story of evangelical parents who banish their teenage daughters from their home.