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Stubborn Grace

Faith, Mental Illness, and Demanding a Blessing

Kate Landis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Skinner House Books

Published:13th Apr '21

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  • National review outreach to trade and print publications (PW, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal, Foreword, New York Times) and online (NPR, Spirituality & Practice, Book Riot)
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  • Promotion during National Mental Health Month, World Mental Health Day, among others.

With unflinching honesty and humor in the vein of Cheryl Strayed and David Sedaris but a raw tenderness all her own, Kate Landis chronicles the hardest parts of her young adulthood as well as her poignant journey to faith and community.

Kate Landis grew up in the American Baptist Church—the child of a music director and a deacon—until she left the church in her late teens after surviving major depression and a handful of suicide attempts. She became an activist, feminist, punk, and self-described rabble rouser. And through activism she found a spiritual community with justice at its core and a faith that could hold it all—her mental illness, her fire, her spunk, and all of her questions—a loving, stubborn grace.

“Kate Landis’s memoir is an honest look at her experiences as a person with mental health problems and the story of how love of family and a spiritual community helped her to recover. Her story involves experiences of anxiety, suicidal depression, psychiatric hospitalizations, loss of friends, and addiction of a family member, but also the love and support of her family, friends, and church community. I think this book will give hope to others who may be suffering mentally but have not been able to admit it to others, or maybe even to themselves. It may encourage them to reach out for connection with a spiritual community.” —Barbara Meyers, author of Held: Showing Up for Each Other’s Mental Health

ISBN: 9781558968578

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1g

336 pages