Full name: Girl at the End of the World: My Escape from Fundamentalism in Search of Faith with a Future

Author: Elizabeth Esther Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Religion Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780307731876 0307731871

Elizabeth Esther grew up in love with Jesus but in fear of daily spankings (to "break her will"). Trained in her family-run church to confess sins real and imagined, she knew her parents loved her and God probably hated her. Not until she was grown and married did she find the courage to attempt the unthinkable. To leave. In her memoir, readers will recognize questions every believer faces: By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, is a story of the lingering effects of spiritual abuse and the growing hope that God can still be good when His people fail. Similar books: Troublemaker by Leah Remini The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner Escape by Carolyn Jessop Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper The Sacred Journey by Frederick Buechner Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler Favorite Wife by Susan Ray Schmidt Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill Praying for Strangers by River Jordan Holy Ghost Girl by Donna M. Johnson Marriage and Other Acts of Charity by Kate Braestrup Devotion by Dani Shapiro An Unquenchable Thirst by Mary Johnson The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis The World in Flames by Jerald Walker This Is Not a Love Story by Judy Brown Cut Me Loose by Leah Vincent