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Fusing an intimate memoir with an outspoken critique of organized religion's failure to welcome all into its community, "The House Where the Hardest Things Happened" is the moving story of onewoman's search for a sense of belonging.
Growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, Kate Young Caley attends a strong community church where everyone is treated like family, members selflessly help oneanother, and all the kids are made to feel special. Then, suddenly, everything changes. Her father is hospitalized for many months and her mother is forced to take a job as a waitress to support the family. But the jobrequires Kate's mother to serve alcohol, which goes against the church's covenant, and the family, banned from attending services, soon finds itself emotionally ostracized from the community.
In"The House Where the Hardest Things Happened," Caley recounts the hurt and confusion she felt as a young girl and her long search for a religious community that would comfort her spiritually, support heremotionally, and respect her intellectual ideals. As she chronicles her journey, she candidly discusses her problems with the way the Christian faith is expressed and with the people who lay claim to it. Her exploration ofreligious teachings on homosexuality is especially powerful as she explains why she is unwilling, and unable, to deny the love she has for her gay brother.
At once the story of a family profoundlytransformed by tragedy and an incisive exploration of the meaning of spirituality, "The House Where the Hardest Things Happened" will appeal to readers of Joyce Carol Oates's "We Were theMulvaneys" and Anne Lamott's "Traveling Mercies." Beautifully written, it brings to life Caley's inspiring determination to reclaim her right to practice her beliefs-the mostbasic human right of all. "From the Hardcover edition."