Promised Land features all kinds of people who are looking for a spiritual awakening, from a little girl's devotion to Disneyland to a potentially life-changing conversation overheard on a train.
She continued: "And that persists through many women's lives, till their death bed, and it is uncomfortable and unhealthy and it actually worried me a little bit, to see young girls swearing undying devotion to this really imperfect character".
His cricketing skills and good looks won him poster space on the walls of a generation of Pakistani boys and girls, and undying devotion when he won them the World Cup for the first time in 1992.
When contemporary teen pop emerged in the late 90's, it was led by former Mouseketeers crooning slow-churning, high-saccharine ballads pledging everlasting love for the girls and submissive devotion for the boys.
"I have had one new experience," shewrote to her husband, "and that is the devotion of girls 18 or 19years old to Prescott.
The suits have discovered that Hannah Montana's double life translates profitably into many media, attracting devotion from girls beguiled by Hannah's stardom but seeing themselves in the dark-haired Miley.
Take That was the One Direction of the early 90s, sparking the frenzied devotion of teenage girls, and became global stars in 1995 after the single Back for Good went to number one in 31 countries and made the US top ten.
Born in Paris on January 9 1908, she was brought up to follow the usual path for a French Catholic girl of good family: religious devotion, marriage and children.
The bad girl mocked thegood boy's devotion, criticized his lack of ambition,exploited his generosity when it was useful toher and abandoned him when it was not.
My own favorite speller was probably April, a quiet girl from Pennsylvania whose dogged devotion to spelling leaves her working-class parents (Archie and Edith Bunker, she dryly calls them) both proud and puzzled.
