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When I Was Writing 'the Abstinence Teacher,' I Really Tried To Immerse Myself In Contemporary American Evangelical Culture.

Safe From The Neighbors Is A Novel Of Unusual Richness And Depth, One That's As Wise About The Small Shocks Within A Marriage As It Is About The Troubled History Of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough Is A Formidably Talented Novelist, Shuttling Between The Past And Present With A Grace That Feels Effortless.

She Would Be A Mentor And An Inspiration To Girls Like Herself, The Quiet Ones Who'd Sleepwalked Their Way Through High School, Knowing Nothing Except That They Couldn't Possibly Be Happy With Any Of The Choices The World Seemed To Be Offering Them.

I've Been A Little Bit Obsessed With Religion, Without Being A Religious Person, For About A Decade.

After All, What Was Adult Life But One Moment Of Weakness Piled On Top Of Another? Most People Just Fell In Line Like Obedient Little Children, Doing Exactly What Society Expected Of Them At Any Given Moment, All The While Pretending That They’d Actually Made Some Sort Of Choice.