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Diane Wilson's Memoir of Her Fundamentalist Upbringing is a Delightnew

Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of the Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus describes Wilson's Pentecostal upbringing in a tiny fishing town in Texas, where residents were ruled by poverty, labor, elaborate religious mores, and corrupt authorities.
The Texas Observer  |  Emily DePrang  |  11-06-2008  |  Nonfiction
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