American Leftovers

Surviving Family, Religion, and the American Dream

Heidi Wilson Messner, Shaun Wilson, Eric Wilson

• Editorial: Chalice Press
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780827201118
• Categoría: Sozialwissenschaften
• Categoría: Sozialwissenschaftliche Biographien

American Leftovers is the story of Heidi, Eric, and Shaun, three children who follow their parents through eastern Europe on Bible-smuggling adventures in the early 1970s. When they return to the States, they face third-culture questions of home and identity. They also deal with sexual situations and abuse, while settling into an evangelical bubble with their parents who pastor a fast-growing church. Everything collapses when their father runs off with an eighteen-year-old girl, leaving behind his family and church. This forces Heidi, Eric, and Shaun to reconcile their own spiritual fervor with the lies and dysfunction so close to home.