Lilies of the Field: An Autobiography by Amanda A. Courtney

This book is about a young woman growing up on the plains of Oklahoma. She is the daughter of a farmer whose mother is an alcoholic. She spends the first eighteen years of her life trying to escape abuse—verbal, physical, and sexual. She explains how she was able to at last raise above her past and live a happy, peaceful life through her belief in herself and in her God.