Keeping Faith

I really like Jodi Picoult writing style BUT this book was just too out there for me. Maybe it's just me, because I like realism and as soon as an alien comes into the picture it's all over... I usually read through books pretty fast but this book took me almost a month because I couldn't get into it. It wasn't so much that it was controversial but that it was just plain weird and unrealistic. I do like the characters she creates and Mariah's mother was my favorite! But, all through this whole book I kept finding myself wondering WHY, if neither parent had no interest in any religion or FAITH, why did they name their child that?