WHEN WE WERE ON FIRE : A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over

Fast rising young blogger Addie Zierman delivers a riveting memoir of growing up in the sheltered, us-versus-them monoculture of evangelicalism. This is the funny, heartbreaking story of how she untangled herself from the church-bound clichés of her youth in search of a faith she can fully own.

Not simply a critique of that culture, her story is of a lover's quarrel with God and his well-intentioned but sometimes injurious people. Addie bravely chronicles her journey through the pressures to conform, her first love, alcohol and the party scene, and her entrance--unprepared and angry--into marriage. She washes out of church and nearly her marriage on a dark sea of tequila and depression. But her return to love, fidelity, Jesus and (perhaps toughest of all) his quirky followers is an unforgettable story that will resonate with millennial Christians everywhere. AUTHOR BIO: ADDIE ZIERMAN is an MFA graduate of Hamline University, where she studied creative nonfiction. She spent four years as a technical writer before branching out as an independent copywriter. She writes twice a week on her blog, How to Talk Evangelical. Addie and her husband, Andrew, have two young sons.