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This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession

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Nonfiction Discovery Prize Winner, Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards

Bronze medalist, Independent Publisher Book Award in Creative Nonfiction

Finalist, Foreword INDIE Book of the Year Award in Autobiography and Memoir

One of five great indie press books from 2019, Book Riot

One of the Rumpus’s best books of 2019

Recommended by Brené Brown in her 2019 roundup of Fall Book Love

Recommended in the 2019 Holiday Gift Book Guide, Longreads

Author and musician Cameron Dezen Hammon's memoir of faith and faltering weaves her zealous conversion to evangelicalism with the search for a more progressive and fluid theology, and the endurance of marriage with an unexpected obsession that threatens to upend her carefully constructed life. From speaking in tongues to street preaching, from biblically sanctioned discrimination to sexual assault, she invites readers inside this tender and harrowing quest for meaning. Part inspiring spiritual memoir, part incisive cultural critique, her story of finding and losing faith is ultimately one of rebuilding a truer, braver self.