Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
A Must-Read: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Millions, Alta

Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

“Magnificent.” —Casey Cep, The New Yorker

Sister, Sinner chronicles the dramatic rise, disappearance, and near-fall of Aimee Semple McPherson, America’s most famous woman evangelist.

On a spring day, Aimee Semple McPherson wandered into the Pacific Ocean and vanished. Weeks later she reappeared in the desert...