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Carregando... Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York (edição: 2021)de Elizabeth Passarella (Autor)
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HTML: "For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes from companies named things like Shrimp & Grits. Why? Because identity is complicated." Elizabeth Passarella is content with being complicated. She 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 cityâ??and, eventually, her husbandâ??and changed. Sort of. While her politics have tilted to the left, she still puts her faith firstâ??and argues that the two can go hand in hand, for what it's worth. In this sharp and slyly profound memoir, Elizabeth 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. Good Apple is a hilarious, welcome celebration of the absurdity, chaos, and strange sacredness of life that brings us all together, whether we have city lights or starry skies in our eyes. More importantly, it's about the God who pursues each of us, no matter our own inconsistencies or failures, and shows us the way back h Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)277.47Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity North America Northeastern U.S. New York (State)Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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