Easter Everywhere
A Memoir, Religion, Biography Memoir book. A well-written and engaging memoir. She's had a tough life--not uncommon for...
The daughter of a minister and a former beauty queen, Darcey Steinke recalls accompanying her father on sick calls, stopping by the scene of accidents, and holding her own pretend wedding and funeral services. Her father's first church was built from a "church kit" and most of the parishioners worked at the...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9781582345307 / 1582345309
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I read this book because I saw an article in a magazine that Elizabeth Gilbert recommended it. I think she must have some vested interest in selling as many copies as she is also quoted on the book jacket about what a GREAT book it is. I finally stopped reading near the end as I felt I was slogging through hip deep mud. I didn't find... A well-written and engaging memoir. She's had a tough life--not uncommon for preacher's kids--trying to come to terms with a stutter, a broken family, and a confused spiritual upbringing. The tone struck me as sad, especially at the end, when Steinke reaches hard for resolution to her spiritual struggles, but I'm glad I read it. This is a very reflective and poignant true story about a woman's struggle to reconcile her faith after a difficult childhood torn between her tenuously religious father and her former beauty queen mother. As a young adult, she engages in fairly destructive behavior and relationships and struggles to regain faith on her own terms. An...