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Title
Sin bravely - a memoir of spiritual disobedience
Sin bravely - a memoir of spiritual disobedience
Author
Maggie Rowe
Maggie Rowe
format
Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Soft Skull Press
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20170110
20170110
Description
An NPR Best Book of 2017
"Rowe deftly juxtaposes dark humor with raw emotion without ever yanking the reader out of the story." -The Guardian
As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian ?regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the ?good news" that they were going to hell.
Finally, at nineteen, crippled by her fear, she checked herself in to an Evangelical psychiatric facility. And that is where her journey really began. Surrounded by a ragtag cast of characters, including a former biker meth-head struggling with anger management issues, a set of identical twins tormented by erotic fantasies, a World War II veteran and artist of denial who insists that he's only ?locked up for a tune-up," and a warm and upbeat chronic depressive who becomes the author's closest ally, Maggie launches a campaign to, in the words of Martin Luther, ?Sin bravely in order to know the forgiveness of God."
Told in a voice both funny and heartfelt, Sin Bravely is a tour de force, voice-driven debut that examines how one woman finally found the middle ground between Heaven and Hell.
"Rowe deftly juxtaposes dark humor with raw emotion without ever yanking the reader out of the story." -The Guardian
As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian ?regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the ?good news" that they were going to hell.
Finally, at nineteen, crippled by her fear, she checked herself in to an Evangelical psychiatric facility. And that is where her journey really began. Surrounded by a ragtag cast of characters, including a former biker meth-head struggling with anger management issues, a set of identical twins tormented by erotic fantasies, a World War II veteran and artist of denial who insists that he's only ?locked up for a tune-up," and a warm and upbeat chronic depressive who becomes the author's closest ally, Maggie launches a campaign to, in the words of Martin Luther, ?Sin bravely in order to know the forgiveness of God."
Told in a voice both funny and heartfelt, Sin Bravely is a tour de force, voice-driven debut that examines how one woman finally found the middle ground between Heaven and Hell.
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