Given Up for You : A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief / Erin O. White.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Living out : gay and lesbian autobiographies | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023Copyright date: ©[2018]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299318291
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Contents:
The dinner party -- Basement chapels -- The long loneliness -- Let a joy keep you -- Ordinary beds -- Wake -- Rules of engagement -- A harmonious match -- Trust -- Grace -- The church on the hill -- Milk dud -- Florida -- Family week -- Eleanor's desk -- Remodel or divorce -- Today I saw God in the face of a kitten -- The memory of hunger -- Easter -- Sisters of wisdom -- Between God and me there is no me -- School days -- A nest on the altar -- Epilogue: Carol.
Summary: In this candid and revelatory memoir, Erin White shares her profound hunger for both romantic and divine love. Both desires arrived unexpectedly and profoundly transformed her. In the 1990s, White spent Saturday nights with her girlfriend and Sunday mornings in Catholic confirmation classes. Gay marriage legislation was sweeping the nation and the lesbian baby boom was well underway. Could she be both Catholic and gay? White reveals her yearnings with bittersweet conviction, plumbing the depths of heart and soul.
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The dinner party -- Basement chapels -- The long loneliness -- Let a joy keep you -- Ordinary beds -- Wake -- Rules of engagement -- A harmonious match -- Trust -- Grace -- The church on the hill -- Milk dud -- Florida -- Family week -- Eleanor's desk -- Remodel or divorce -- Today I saw God in the face of a kitten -- The memory of hunger -- Easter -- Sisters of wisdom -- Between God and me there is no me -- School days -- A nest on the altar -- Epilogue: Carol.

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In this candid and revelatory memoir, Erin White shares her profound hunger for both romantic and divine love. Both desires arrived unexpectedly and profoundly transformed her. In the 1990s, White spent Saturday nights with her girlfriend and Sunday mornings in Catholic confirmation classes. Gay marriage legislation was sweeping the nation and the lesbian baby boom was well underway. Could she be both Catholic and gay? White reveals her yearnings with bittersweet conviction, plumbing the depths of heart and soul.

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