A memoir of the profound destabilization that comes from losing one\'s faith--and a young woman\'s journey to reconcile her lack of belief with her love for her deeply religious family.
At sixteen, driven by a desire to discover the world, Jessica walked away from the church--trading her faith for freedom, and driving a wedge between her and her.
Growing up in poverty in the rural backwoods of southern Maryland, the Pentecostal church was at the core of Jessica Wilbanks\' family life.
A memoir of the profound destabilization that comes from losing one\'s faith--and a young woman\'s journey to reconcile her lack of belief with her love for her deeply religious family