Good apple : tales of a Southern evangelical in New York
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Good apple : tales of a Southern evangelical in New York
Author:
Passarella, Elizabeth, 1976- author.
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9781400218578
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Physical Description:
xv, 235 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- The virgin surprise -- How I became a Democrat: part 1 -- The breakup -- Naked family -- Fighting outside -- Lions -- How I became a Democrat: part 2 -- Let's talk about miscarriages -- 1,241 square feet -- To all the Jews I've loved -- Songs of deliverance -- El Shaddai, El Shaddai -- Southern manners: an identity crisis -- To my work colleagues, re: November 9, 2016 -- You get what you get, and (over the course of a few years and the persistent work of the Holy Spirit) you don't get upset -- There was a rat in my bedroom, and then I got stuck in an elevator -- The devil works overtime on Sunday mornings -- Let there be ice -- Un-comfort zone -- They got lost and were never seen again -- Jesus and the Radio City Rockettes.
Abstract:
"A wickedly smart, utterly hilarious debut from a Southern Living columnist--mother of three, Southerner married to a New Yorker, evangelical Christian, and Democrat--about the absurdity, chaos, and strange sacredness of her life on Manhattan's Upper West Side"-- Provided by publisher.
Passarella grew up in Memphis in a conservative, Republican family with a Christian mom and a Jewish dad. Then she moved to New York, fell in love with the city and, eventually, her husband... and changed. Sort of. In her memoir she shares stories about everything from conceiving a baby in an unair-conditioned garage in Florida to finding a rat in her bedroom. She upends stereotypes about Southerners, New Yorkers, and Christians, making a case that we are all flawed humans simply doing our best. More importantly, it is about the God who pursues each of us, no matter our own inconsistencies or failures, and shows us the way back home. -- adapted from jacket
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