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020    0802883583|q(hardcover) 
020    |z9781467467254|q(epub) 
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050 00 BR1713|b.W48 2024 
082 00 280/.4092|aB|223/eng/20240222 
100 1  West, Cait,|d1988-|eauthor. 
245 10 Rift :|ba memoir of breaking away from Christian 
       patriarchy /|cCait West. 
264  1 Grand Rapids, Michigan :|bWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing 
       Company,|c2024. 
300    vii, 235 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Cait West's memoir shares her upbringing as a stay-at-
       home daughter and her eventual escape from Christian 
       patriarchy"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    ""A powerful meditation on what it means to be trapped and
       what it takes to break free." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED
       Review. A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-
       at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together 
       a future on your own terms. Raised in the Christian 
       patriarchy movement, Cait West was homeschooled and could 
       only wear clothes her father deemed modest. She was five 
       years old the first time she was told her swimsuit was too
       revealing, to go change. There would be no college in her 
       future, no career. She was a stay-at-home daughter and 
       would move out only when her father allowed her to become 
       a wife. She was trained to serve men, and her life would 
       never be her own. Until she escaped. In Rift, Cait West 
       tells a harrowing story of chaos and control hidden 
       beneath the facade of a happy family. Weaving together 
       lyrical meditations on the geology of the places her 
       family lived with her story of spiritual and emotional 
       manipulation as a stay-at-home daughter, Cait creates a 
       stirring portrait of one young woman's growing awareness 
       that she is experiencing abuse. With the ground shifting 
       beneath her feet, Cait mustered the courage to break free 
       from all she'd ever known and choose a future of her own 
       making. Rift is a story of survival. It's also a story 
       about what happens after you survive. With compassion and 
       clarity, Cait explores the complex legacy of patriarchal 
       religious trauma in her life, including the ways she has 
       also been complicit in systems of oppression. A remarkable
       literary debut, Rift offers an essential personal 
       perspective on the fraught legacy of purity culture and 
       recent reckonings with abuse in Christian communities"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 West, Cait,|d1988- 
650  0 Christian women|vBiography. 
650  0 Women|xAbuse of|xReligious aspects. 
650  0 Patriarchy|xReligious aspects|xChristianity. 
650  0 Psychology, Religious. 
650  0 Wife abuse|xReligious aspects. 
650  7 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families.|2bisacsh 
655  7 Religious materials.|2lcgft 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
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