A review by achilliad
Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I admired the author's ability to challenge the reader and her willingness to challenge herself. She seems to understand that one of the most important aspects about personal nonfiction and memoir is radical honesty with the self and the reader, which can be painful all around.
Personally, as an ex-Catholic queer, I struggle with the space she wants to provide for evangelicalism, Catholicism, and other forms of Christianity. It's not a thing I want to grieve, and my personal ruminations are always focused on how Christianity is an institutionally dangerous practice. I should have had more faith in the author
because she does give the last thought to the ways Christianity is dangerous and she treats it with the forthrightness and honesty I think are often missing when we tiptoe around the conversation of religious faith as if it's something above reproach.
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