GOOD CHRISTIAN GIRL by L.L. Edgerton is a forthcoming literary novel about childhood religious trauma that continues into adulthood.

As a child, Lee Ellis was surrounded by spiritual hypocrisy and her mother's eating disorders. Twenty years later, Lee is navigating the daily routines of marriage and parenthood coinciding with work, pets and sex. As her depression segues into a series of dark, unsettling dreams, she realizes that she needs to address her mental health before the past destroys her. Written in the style of a personal narrative, GOOD CHRISTIAN GIRL will appeal to fans of Michelle Richmond's nuanced prose (THE YEAR OF FOG) and Margaret Atwood's blunt, often somber explorations of the psychology encompassing relationships and sex (CAT’S EYE).

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GOOD CHRISTIAN GIRL

“I know when to be quiet, to tamp down the urge to ask what may be misconstrued as an inappropriate question but which is simple curiosity born of ignorance. There is so much that I don't know that I long to know. Sometimes, sometimes, I feel as though I was born already knowing how to leaf through a dictionary's pages and look up answers to the things that I know I can never voice aloud; the books I read don't judge me, don't demand explanations or justifications or apologies, the way adults do. I wonder if, whenever people look at me, this is what they see: only a weird, introspective girl who likes to read the dictionary, someone who peers out at everyone else from big eyes behind big glasses, someone who asks too many questions.”