Act Normal: Memoir Of A Stumbling Block

Eighteen-year-old Kristy has a stalker who sits three pews behind her every Sunday morning She expects her beloved church family to rally around her, but her fundamentalist church council is dismissive. As 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. Early Praise: "Not merely a thriller about being stalked, Act Normal 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." -Tanya Marlow, author of Those Who Wait: Finding God In Disappointment, Doubt, And Delay "It is, all at the same time, disturbing and delightful, frightening and funny, horrifying and hilarious. 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." -Kenneth N. Myers, author of Salvation (And How We Got It Wrong) and Look At Us: What Life, Love, & Loss Taught Me About Romance

Author: Kristy Burmeister

Publisher: Flipped Mitten Press

Publication Date: Jan 08, 2018

Number of Pages: 326 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0999570005

ISBN-13: 9780999570005