“If readers feel seen by this book and thus saved from the stigma they, like Gazmarian, might have carried like a cross, that’s no small accomplishment.” —Carlene Bauer, The New York Times
Despite Gazmarian’s exploration of and consequent qualms about certain facets of the church, her memoir reads as a testimonial to the enduring power of faith—a diarist’s pursuit of unanswerable yet no less vital questions: What does it mean to be “good” in this world? Where do we belong within it? —Courtney Tenz, Los Angeles Review of Books
“A righteously angry debut, a testimony that will speak to both God-fearing and secular readers, any of us in search for a love not conditioned on obedience.” —Oprah Daily ”
