{"product_id":"you-lied-to-me-about-god","title":"You Lied To Me About God","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An intimate and important memoir of deconstructing and reconstructing faith after abuse ... a spiritual memoir that does not shy away from abuse, queerness, or the multifaceted character of God.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA courageous, vulnerable, and spellbinding memoir that explores with visceral impact what happens when harm starts at home—and is exalted as God’s will\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For readers of \u003ci\u003eUnfollow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJesus Land\u003c\/i\u003e: Jamie Marich explores spiritual abuse, intergenerational trauma, and weaponized faith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt nine years old, Jamie Marich asked God to end it all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoing it herself would be an irrevocable sin: an affront to the church and her father’s God. She prayed instead for the rapture, an accident, a passive death—anything to stop the turmoil of feeling \u003ci\u003ewrong\u003c\/i\u003e: wrong in her body; wrong in her desires; wrong in her faith in a merciful God that could love her wholly as she was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou Lied to Me About God\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e explores the schisms that erupt when faith is weaponized, when abuse collides with the push-and-pull of a mixed religious upbringing tyhat tells you: no matter which path you choose—\u003ci\u003eno matter what you know in your heart to be true\u003c\/i\u003e—you’re probably damned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith resilience, strength, and gut-punching clarity, Marich takes readers through a tumultuous coming-of-age marked by addiction, escapism, spiritual manipulation, misogyny, and abuse. She shares with unflinching detail the complicity of her mother’s silence and the lengths her father went to assert dominance and control over her body, her desires, her identity—and even her eternal soul—”for her own good” and with a side of televangelistic hellfire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHitting a breaking point, Marich embarks on pilgrimage: from shrines in Croatia to ashrams in Florida, she reckons with what it means to come home to a faith that heals and accepts her wholly as she is: in her queerness, in her body, and in her deep relationship to an expansive and loving God.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57199431942526,"sku":"NW9798889840442","price":14.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9798889840442.jpg?v=1778533114","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/you-lied-to-me-about-god","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}