![]() ![]() She grew up and out of evangelicalism but not before she was taught to hate her body, endured a disastrous marriage, and found her relationship with Jesus much more fraught than her younger self would have thought possible. The researched pieces-about the origins of evangelicalism, the 1990s explosion of purity culture, and the roots of misogyny and racism in the church-are fascinating, but more interesting is Kadlec’s personal journey. This approach along with accounts of her childhood that never seem to go as deep as they could combines in a narrative technique that sometimes feels like it is meant to keep readers at arm’s length. Instead, Kadlec tells us the story of her life so far in bits and pieces, interspersed with graduate-level research. ![]() ![]() Opening with her trip to the county courthouse where she filed her divorce papers, the author doesn’t try to surprise us with shocking twists or turns. Veering from scholarly and self-assured to angry and doubtful, Kadlec chronicles her experiences being raised by evangelical Christians and her subsequent deconstruction and rebuilding of everything she thought she knew about herself. ![]() In a memoir of discovery and unlearning, a Midwest girl finds religious freedom on the East Coast. ![]()
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