Stubborn Grace: Faith, Mental Illness, and Demanding a Blessing

Kate Landis grew up in the American Baptist Church, the child of a music director and a deacon. She left the church in her late teens, after surviving major depression and a handful of suicide attempts. She became an activist, feminist, punk, and self-described rabble-rouser, and through activism found a spiritual community with justice at its core and a faith that could hold it all--her mental illness, her fire, her spunk, and all of her questions--a loving, stubborn grace.

With unflinching honesty and humor in the vein of Cheryl Strayed and David Sedaris but a raw tenderness all her own, Landis chronicles the hardest parts of her young adulthood as well as her poignant journey to faith and community.