![]() ![]() ![]() This is not a Pollyanna story about how the maverick but plucky outsider wins the hearts of a skeptical, resistant community it is a mosaic exploration of how hard it can be to love a community (let alone please everyone in it). Cartledgehayes steers the reader firmly through life as a woman in a conservative divinity school and into her post with a struggling congregation. The book is a brisk excursion through her unusual childhood on a small island, her early pregnancies and failed marriages and the dramatic miracle that propelled her into church, a loving relationship and the ministry. ![]() This breathless, pulsating, sensual memoir by a Methodist minister demonstrates a poetic mastery over language and breaks open stereotypes about Methodists, ministers, feminists, grandmothers, musicians and all the other roles Cartledgehayes embodies. ![]()
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