Heather King
My most recent book is called RAVISHED: Notes on Womanhood. I come right out up front and say I have been something of less than a wild success in the romance department...and thus I hope, set the tone for a book about womanhood by a human being--not defined by labels of right, left, pro-life or even feminist...but rather a full-fledged, deeply flawed, on-fire-with-Christ human being. Who OF course loves life in all its forms, and all women—and all children, and all men…
The book is a collection of essays, some of which have been previously published. "All the Mothers in the World," the last chapter, for example, won some kind of award, I think an Honorable Mention in Best American Essays, after first appearing in The Sun. At some point I realized I've been writing about being a woman, and especially having been formed as a woman in the Church, for years.
And after being less than thrilled with the approach and tone of much of MeToo, I decided it was time to collect those essays into a book. My own movement, and I have a chapter on it, would be called #AllOfUs.
The book also includes the whole of "Poor Baby," a 10,000-word essay about healing from abortion that I self-published years ago.
I sometimes joke that I've written a book about every single thing that has ever happened to me--which at this point equals twelve. Alcoholism, divorce, money neuroses, cancer--I can't wait to see what's next!
The book is a collection of essays, some of which have been previously published. "All the Mothers in the World," the last chapter, for example, won some kind of award, I think an Honorable Mention in Best American Essays, after first appearing in The Sun. At some point I realized I've been writing about being a woman, and especially having been formed as a woman in the Church, for years.
And after being less than thrilled with the approach and tone of much of MeToo, I decided it was time to collect those essays into a book. My own movement, and I have a chapter on it, would be called #AllOfUs.
The book also includes the whole of "Poor Baby," a 10,000-word essay about healing from abortion that I self-published years ago.
I sometimes joke that I've written a book about every single thing that has ever happened to me--which at this point equals twelve. Alcoholism, divorce, money neuroses, cancer--I can't wait to see what's next!
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