Will the Real God Please Stand Up; My First Eighty Years

This is a memoir that reads like a novel. It is the story of one woman's path out of organized religion into a spiritual identity of her own, written in the cultural context of 20th century mid-America and into the 21st century.

The narrator describes the factors and events that led to a change in consciousness for her. Conversations with friends, imaginary discourses with favorite dead authors she loved, a breakdown or breakthrough of her soul, the early deaths of people all around her: the...