Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

“A powerful meditation on what it means to be trapped and what it takes to break free.” —Publishers Weekly STARRED Review

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay—at—home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms.

Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was homeschooled and could only wear clothes her father deemed modest. She was five years old the first time she was told her swimsuit was too revealing, to go change. There would b...