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Last Pew On The Left
Paperback
RomanceChristian FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 4 2026
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the last place you'd look for God turns out to be exactly where you find yourself.
Maggie Thornton has spent six months avoiding church, avoiding grief, and avoiding the well-meaning people who want to help her process the loss of her husband. But when her mother's relentless concern pushes her through the doors of Grace Chapel one Sunday morning, Maggie does what any reasonable person would do: she sits in the last pew on the left and makes herself invisible.
Or so she thinks.
What she doesn't expect is the motley crew of misfits, skeptics, and genuine believers who occupy that back corner every week-people who don't perform faith, they practice it. People like Tom, the sardonic engineer with a complicated past. Rachel, the young mother drowning in expectations. And Pastor David, who preaches like someone who's read the footnotes and found them more interesting than the text.
Week by week, in the space between hymns and potluck dinners, Maggie discovers something she didn't know she was looking for: a community that makes room for doubt, a faith that doesn't require her to have all the answers, and the possibility that healing doesn't mean forgetting-it means learning how to carry what you've lost while still moving forward.
Warm, witty, and achingly honest, Last Pew on the Left is a novel about finding grace in the last place you'd expect it, and learning that the people who sit in the back of the church might understand faith better than anyone in the front row.
Perfect for readers who loved:
- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
- The Guncle by Steven Rowley
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
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