Can I Get A Witness By Billingsley Summary

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Shannon Samuels English 101-1A 6/24/12 Professor Commodors Book Review “Can I get a witness,” by Reshonda Tate Billingsley, Year of publication(2008), Fiction, 310 pages. $14.95, Pocket Books, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020 “Can I Get A Witness” is a novel about family, marriage, struggles, and forgiveness. The book took placed in Houston,TX. In this book it talked about a divorce court judge, Vanessa Colton-Kirk and her relationship problems. She has seen everything in her notorious Houston courtroom, where she's presided over the breakup of many unhappy and disillusioned couples. But when career driven Vanessa chooses to work late on their 5th wedding anniversary, her husband, Thomas decides hes had enough of her always putting work before starting the family that he wants so bad, and he decides he wants out. Also…show more content…
In the book both sisters had to deal with their spouse cheating on them but they both just wanted revenge on their husband and boyfriend at first but that wasn’t the right way to go about it. One of my favorite lines in the book is in the chapter where the spiritual counselors tell Vanessa and Thomas that just because god says its okay to divorce and adulterer doesn’t mean you should. I think that in this day and age, we are so quick to throw in the towel and sometimes god really wants us to look at the “for better or for worse” part. I think that if your husband or wife was to make a mistake we shouldn’t be so quick to get a divorce and try to work things out. This book taught me that divorce isn’t the way to solve your problems all though time. Sometimes you have to put in the effort to make things work. That's where the forgiveness part comes in. sometimes its better just to forgive somebody rather then just trying to get revenge on a person. Sometimes trying to get revenge only backfires on

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