When We Were on Fire

<p><strong>An honest deeply relatable memoir about coming of age in evangelical culture-and finding a way forward.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>A book to savor to the very last page. -<em>Publisher's Weekly</em> (starred review)</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>A brilliant debut. -Anne Bogel host of the <em>What Should I Read Next?</em> podcast</strong></p><p></p><p>In the strange us-versus-them world of '90s Christian subculture faith was measured in Jesus fish WWJD bracelets and purity pledges. And Addie Zierman was an evangelical poster child-so on fire for God that she didn't realize the flame of her faith was dwindling until it burned entirely out.</p><p></p><p>With candor and transparency Addie chronicles her journey through church culture first love and her entrance-unprepared and angry-into marriage. When she washes out of church and nearly her marriage on a sea of tequila and depression she isn't sure if she'll ever go back.</p><p></p><p>This is the funny heartbreaking story of untangling oneself from cliché in search of a faith worth embracing. It's a story for anyone who has ever felt alone in a crowded church. For the cynic. The doubter. The former Jesus freak struggling with life's complexity.</p><p></p><p>It's a story about the slow work of returning to love and about what lasts when nothing seems worth keeping.</p>