My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus

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Price
$18.95  $17.62
Publisher
Arktoi Books
Publish Date
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.0 X 8.0 X 0.7 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780980040753

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About the Author

Kelly Barth was a fiction fellow in the University of Montana's creative writing program and has received fellowships from the Missouri Arts Council and the Kansas Arts Commission. Her work has been published in anthologies and literary journals, most recently Coal City Review and Muse & Stone. She lives in a very small house with her partner Lisa Grossman in Lawrence, Kansas. My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus is her first book.

Reviews

"My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus is a beautiful memoir of a young Christian woman's determined but hopeless battle with her sexuality, and Barth's narration is wise, honest, and frequently hilarious. Her struggle and triumph, so engagingly rendered, should resonate with anyone who has taken the long way to thoughtful self-reliance."
--Laura Moriarty


"Funny. Poignant. Heartbreaking. Barth takes us through a world of religious dogma that can be harsh and frightening and emerges into a Christian spirituality we recognize--one of love and tolerance and wisdom. Her nuanced story will be exotic to those of us who have never personally experienced evangelical religion, even as its central humanity remains deeply familiar."--Sharman Apt Russell, Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist

"Kelly Barth's heartfelt, funny, and wrenching book is testimony to Jesus' steadfast love. Her faith, tested and tried, looks beyond the failings of religion to claim that love for all."
--Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak