“…warm and funny…completely real, authentic, and
sincere…a cathartic experience for the reader.” BOOKREVIEW | other reviews
Online Book Launch
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Where: Amazon.com
Buy Walking in the Deep End, the new memoir by author Susan Parker, on October 9, 2009 from Amazon and enter to win prizes and donate a portion of the proceeds to charity. Just follow the buttons below to complete the transaction. Your purchase will automatically enter you into a drawing to win one of five autographed copies of the book as well as one of three writing journals. The author will also be talking to readers via Skype, Facebook and Twitter.
ABOUTTHE BOOK
Drowning in generations of narrow dogma — embracing the surface of self
Eleven year-old Susan Parker must keep vigil during a family tragedy that plunges her tomboy innocence into the murk of family dysfunction—Evangelicals, her only lifeguards. Tender to the bone, Walking in the Deep End is an earnest and engaging memoir, written with honesty, spunk, and humor. Although suicide, bulimia, religious hypocrisy, and romantic heartbreak rip through her life like overpowering currents, Parker finds courage and hope, drawing you into her compelling and, at times, uncanny experience of authentic spirituality.
"Genuinely uplifting and inspiring.” — Kirkus Discoveries
"Completely real, authentic, and sincere. It’s a cathartic experience for the reader.“ — BookReview.com
"Parker’s honest style and rich experiences remind me of the work of Anne Lamott and Augusten Burroughs as she unveils family secrets, skewers religious hypocrisy, and faces the truth about herself in a way that held me spellbound." — Candace Chellew-Hodge, author of Bulletproof Faith
GIFTS ANDBONUSES (through random drawing)
Win one of five autographed copies of Walking in the Deep End
Win one of three leather-bound writing journals
A portion of the proceeds from books sales will be donated to these charities:
