{"product_id":"9781593766597","title":"Sin Bravely: A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rowe deftly juxtaposes dark humor with raw emotion without ever yanking the reader out of the story.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian —regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the “good news” that they were going to hell. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, at nineteen, crippled by her fear, she checked herself in to an Evangelical psychiatric facility. And that is where her journey really began. Surrounded by a ragtag cast of characters, including a former biker meth-head struggling with anger management issues, a set of identical twins tormented by erotic fantasies, a World War II veteran and artist of denial who insists that he’s only “locked up for a tune-up,” and a warm and upbeat chronic depressive who becomes the author’s closest ally, Maggie launches a campaign to, in the words of Martin Luther, “Sin bravely in order to know the forgiveness of God.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in a voice both funny and heartfelt, \u003ci\u003eSin Bravely\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force, voice-driven debut that examines how one woman finally found the middle ground between Heaven and Hell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041017905392,"sku":"9781593766597","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593766597_p0.jpg?v=1763813890","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593766597","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}