{"product_id":"9780999570005","title":"Act Normal: Memoir of a Stumbling Block","description":"\u003cb\u003eEighteen-year-old Kristy has a stalker who sits three pews behind her every Sunday morning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe expects her beloved church family to rally around her, but her fundamentalist church council is dismissive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs her stalker's erratic behavior escalates toward a promised Old Testament-style execution, and church members continue to shelter him while promoting purity culture, she must make a choice: submit to the point of being murdered or leave everything behind to build a new life-and faith-from scratch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEarly Praise:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eNot merely a thriller about being stalked\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAct Normal\u003c\/i\u003e raises important questions on the church, feminine sexuality - and most challengingly, how to be a peacemaker in a violent world when it comes at great cost.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Tanya Marlow, author of \u003ci\u003eThose Who Wait: Finding God In Disappointment, Doubt, And Delay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eIt is, all at the same time, disturbing and delightful, frightening and funny, horrifying and hilarious.\u003c\/b\u003e It is a book that unmasks the 'norms' of typical American Evangelical Christian 'churchhood,' and calls us to be aware of the dangers which lie beneath the calm surface of our established religious routines and habits.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Kenneth N. Myers, author of \u003ci\u003eSalvation (And How We Got It Wrong)\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLook At Us: What Life, Love, \u0026amp; Loss Taught Me About Romance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flipped Mitten Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019712020720,"sku":"9780999570005","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780999570005_p0.jpg?v=1763960228","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780999570005","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}