Journal of a Not-So-Perfect Daughter

Sometimes in life you find that hearing someone else’s story can strangely mirror your own experience. This is one of those stories.

With remarkable openness, Nancy Carver Abbott shares the journal of her struggles with depression, an aging gather, and doubts about her childhood religion. As she reaches across time to recapture her father’s childhood and her own, she seeks to understand her father’s faith in God. And she poignantly speaks of the changes and concerns as her father ages—yet f...