Synopsis
Growing up between Baptist Endtimers and Apocalyptic Greens, this is a rollicking tale of survival. In Brenda Peterson's unusual memoir, Fundamentalism meets deep ecology. Childhood with her forest ranger father in the high Sierras led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave that world. Peterson survived fierce 'sword drill' competitions over total recall of the Scriptures, awkward dinner table questions (Will Rapture take the cat, too?) only to find that environmentalists with prophecies of doom can also be Endtimers. Peterson paints such a hilarious and loving portrait of each world that the reader, too, may want to be Left Behind.
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About the Author
Brenda Peterson is the author of the novels Becoming the Enemy, Duck and Cover, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Animal Heart. Her two collections of essays: Living by Water and Nature and Other Mothers established her as a leading nature writer. Peterson's non-fiction has appeared in various US publications, including the New York Times, Seattle Times, and magazines such as New Age Journal, Sierra, Orion and The Utne Reader. She lives in Seattle.
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