Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Real

The Yada Yadas thought they had a handle on forgiveness, but it seems God has them on a crash course to an even deeper level.

After everything the group had been through in the past eight months, Jodi Baxter told God she could use a little dull and boring in the new year. But that was before Leslie "Stu" Stuart moved in upstairs. Ms Perfect herself and Jodi, living in the same two-flat, is a recipe for collision. Then Delores Enriquez's son Jose wanted to throw Jodi's Amanda a quinceanera, a coming-out party Mexican style, and the two of them are only fifteen.

At least Bandana Woman, who held up the Yada Yada Prayer Group at knifepoint last fall, was safely locked up in prison. Or so Jodi thought. They visited her, like the Bible says; even sent her something for Christmas. But then she ends up back in their face, and the question becomes unavoidable: how far is forgiveness supposed to go?

With eleven Yada Yada sisters as diverse as a bag of Jelly Bellies, life is always unpredictable. The longer they pray together, the more real things get, with each other and with God.