Kristy Burmeister
ASIN: B07875NKHG
Publisher: Flipped Mitten Press
Pages: 328
It's the summer of 1999. Eighteen-year-old Kristy is enjoying the last few weeks of summer with her friends from youth group. Ray, a middle-aged man from the church, has been following her around at church events, but she shrugs off his attention until the night he breaks into her home.Act Normal is a raw and honest journey through the emotional and spiritual aftermath of religious trauma.Praise for Act Normal:"Not merely a thriller about being stalked, Act Normal raises important questions on the church, feminine sexuality--and most challengingly, how to be a peacemaker in a violent world when it comes at great cost."--Tanya Marlow, author of Those Who Wait: Finding God In Disappointment, Doubt, And Delay"It is, all at the same time, disturbing and delightful, frightening and funny, horrifying and hilarious. It is a book that unmasks the 'norms' of typical American Evangelical ...