Shameless

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a deeply personal story of growing up within evangelical Christianity and questioning its guidance on premarital sex. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Now updated with a new preface by the author!</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dani Fankhauser was 26 in a new city and a virgin who'd never had a boyfriend. Her trust that God would bring her a perfect partner as the Christian self-help books had promised was fading. She worried she would never find love if she continued on the same path. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Shameless</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a memoir of disillusionment. Fankhauser digs into formative moments in her childhood and teen years from strict modesty dress codes at church beach outings in Southern California to being the only student in her public school class to skip sex ed due to her parents' preference. She enthusiastically reviews Bible passages and interrogates her own conscience observing romantic relationships between non-Christian roommates and church leaders alike before reaching a fresh conclusion. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With the raw honesty of Anne Lamott's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Traveling Mercies</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and the hopeful perspective of Elizabeth Gilbert's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Eat Pray Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Fankhauser presents an ethic on intimacy that is both compassionate and devotional.  </span></p>