SUFFICIENT GRACE

A revealing, evocative, and moving portrayal of life in a fundamentalist Christian sect in rural Wisconsin. Ruth and her cousin Naomi live in rural Failing, Wisconsin, part of a community of Pentecostal fundamentalists. While their families perceive constant danger in the outside world, they are blind to the destruction and devastation within their own circle. Struggling with a horrifying secret, Ruth escapes her own disturbing reality by taking refuge in the beauty of the natural world. The girls' prayer for deliverance is answered, but only with more blood. A story of lost innocence and the quest for absolution, Sufficient Grace reveals the tragedy that can result when family, faith and sin are inextricably bound together.

Born in rural Wisconsin, Amy Espeseth lives in Melbourne, having
immigrated to Australia in the late 1990s. A writer, publisher and
academic, she is the recipient of the Felix Meyer Scholarship in
Literature, the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an
unpublished manuscript, the 2010 QUT Postgraduate Creative
Writing Prize, and the 2012 CAL/Scribe Fiction Prize. Her fiction has
appeared in various journals including Wet Ink, antithesis, and The
Death Mook.

"As disturbing as they are, there are stories that demand to be written. This is
such a story, delivered by a writer of remarkable talent. Long after reading
Sufficient Grace you will not forget it, and will be left with wanting more
from Amy Espeseth." - Tony Birch