Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms.

Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was hom…

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