We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter's Reckoning with American Christianity

"A smart, searching look at the need for more inclusive forms of Christianity in the U.S." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

A daughter of the Asian American church wrestles with faith, exile, and belonging.

Being a Christian has nothing to do with being Chinese American--that's what Kristin T. Lee learned as a child. A fissure between her identity and what she was told to believe opened wide. In We Mend with Gold, she asks: What if we can bridge the divide?

Lee describes both the breakin...