This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession
Nonfiction Discovery Prize Winner, Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards
Bronze medalist, Independent Publisher Book Award in Creative Nonfiction
Finalist, Foreword INDIE Book of the Year Award in Autobiography and Memoir
One of five great indie press books from 2019, Book Riot
One of the Rumpus’s best books of 2019
Recommended by Brené Brown in her 2019 roundup of Fall Book Love
Recommended in the 2019 Holiday Gift Book Guide, Longreads
Author and musician Cameron Dezen Hammon’s memoir of faith and faltering weaves her zealous conversion to evangelicalism with the search for a more progressive and fluid theology, and the endurance of marriage with an unexpected obsession that threatens to upend her carefully constructed life. From speaking in tongues to street preaching, from biblically sanctioned discrimination to sexual assault, she invites readers inside this tender and harrowing quest for meaning. Part inspiring spiritual memoir, part incisive cultural critique, her story of finding and losing faith is ultimately one of rebuilding a truer, braver self.
$17.95
In this memoir of faith and faltering, author and musician Cameron Dezen Hammon, a Jew-ish New Yorker, finds herself searching for love, meaning―a sign. She’s led to Coney Island, where during a lightning storm, she is baptized in the murky waters of the Atlantic by a group of ragtag converts. After years of trying to make a name for herself as an artist, she follows her boyfriend and new God to Houston, Texas, the heart of American evangelical subculture. Her job at a suburban megachurch there has her performing on stage before crowds, awash in lights and smoke, yet grappling with outdated gender expectations―look pretty but not too pretty, young but not too young―and ultimately her identity as both a believer and feminist.
This Is My Body weaves her zealous conversion with the search for a more progressive and fluid theology, the endurance of marriage with an unexpected obsession that threatens to upend her carefully constructed life. From speaking in tongues to street preaching, from biblically sanctioned discrimination to sexual assault, she invites readers inside this tender and harrowing journey. Part inspiring spiritual memoir, part incisive cultural critique, her story of finding and losing faith is ultimately one of rebuilding a truer, braver self.
Price: $17.95
Publication Date: October 22, 2019
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 224
Format: Trade paper with French flaps
Memoir