{"product_id":"rift-a-memoir-of-breaking-away-from-christian-patriarchy","title":"Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy","description":"“A powerful meditation on what it means to be trapped and what it takes to break free.” —Publishers Weekly STARRED Review\n\nA 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.\n\nRaised 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.\n\nUntil she escaped.\n\nIn 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.\n\nRift 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0802883583\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0802883583.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:West, Cait\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41472056361018,"sku":"DBV.0802883583.G","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0802883583-0.jpg?v=1781718543","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/rift-a-memoir-of-breaking-away-from-christian-patriarchy","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}