Like a Fish Denied a River

As a child, Jere Pfister would dig up her beloved pets and cry out to God, begging Him to bring them back to life. But death was not the only thing she feared. There was also the suffocating weight of secrets: secrets that kept the people she loved from living fully.

In this raw and unflinching memoir, Pfister takes readers on a deeply personal journey through a childhood shadowed by a church and a mother who both claimed to speak only the truth, yet built their foundations on lies. What beg...