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Susan Campbell'swriting has been recognized by the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors; National Women's Political Caucus; the Sunday Magazine Editors Association, and the Connecticut chapter of Society of Professional Journalists. She was also a member of the Courant's 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning team for breaking news. She is co-author of a travel book,Connecticut Curiositiesand she lives in Connecticut with her husband.
Simultaneously wisecracking and scholarly, both heartfelt and hilarious . . . I loved this book! --Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed This fond memoir of growing up a rebellious tomboy in a fundamentalist church that expects women to be pious, subservient and, above all, quiet tells what it feels like to have Jesus as your boyfriend-and what happens when you want to break up with him. -- Ms. [A] heartfelt memoir . . . [Campbell's] writing is striking for the compassion with which she views her younger self, a fledgling believer confined in a cage of manmade rules. --Jane Ciabattari, More Rarely has a genuine feminist emerged from the modern evangelical movement. An exception is Susan Campbell. --Hanna Rosin, Mother Jones A mesmerizing, funny, impressionistic memoir of a spiritual and thoughtful person, one who has spent her life wrestling with religion, the meaning of faith and her feelings for the Divine. -- Houston Chronicle Campbell has both a sense of humor and a knack for religious research . . . [and gives] readers a hook to grab on to as they ponder life's big questions alongside a tomboy theologian. --Harry Levins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch A moving account of closely cinched fundamentalist girlhood . . . Fundamentalism 'broke off in us, ' like a sword, seems a poignant metaphor for the injuries suffered. Fortunately for the rest of us, [Campbell's] chosen salve for those wounds is the writing of astute and vivid prose. --Valerie Weaver-Zercher, The Christian Century
