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The Church of All Awry
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ISBN13: 9798234098245
Publisher: Bogodfrey Julius Production
Published: Aug 2 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Bogodfrey Julius Production
Published: Aug 2 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I always had this strange feeling that everyone was laughing at a great party that I wasn't invited to. And I wasn't convinced I really wanted to go. But to feel invited would have been nice.
In 1975, a seven-foot, turbaned fortune-teller insisted that before I was born, they came at me with knives. Soon after, I learned the truth - my parents had tried to abort me.
In 1975, a seven-foot, turbaned fortune-teller insisted that before I was born, they came at me with knives. Soon after, I learned the truth - my parents had tried to abort me.
Barely nineteen, I moved my bed, my bong, and my delusions into the attic of the Unitarian church of Poughkeepsie, intending to side-step adulthood. I wanted no part of that party. Then this ridiculous carnival psychic told me - and my brother confirmed - I wasn't invited.
Was I born a mistake? And if so, was there a place for me in this world?
Terrified yet compelled, I stuck out my thumb setting off on a 7,000-mile hitchhiking odyssey that circled 1970's America in search of belonging. Along the way, I thwarted kidnappers, fended off predators and con men, leapt clear of murderous pickup trucks, and escaped evangelists of every stripe. I reached Big Sur and found splendor-but no one to share it with. When I called home from a payphone, I learned that my closest friend had just been murdered...while hitchhiking!
I pressed on, ready to die for an invitation to live. Camping with a dying man in the desert, I was finally forced to choose - keep waiting for the world to welcome me. Or welcome the world. THE CHURCH OF ALL AWRY is a humerous American adventure memoir that will appeal to readers who feel alienated by the lives laid out for them and are searching for purpose outside conventional structures. It is ultimately a hopeful story of stepping forward into agency, connection, and grace.
Was I born a mistake? And if so, was there a place for me in this world?
Terrified yet compelled, I stuck out my thumb setting off on a 7,000-mile hitchhiking odyssey that circled 1970's America in search of belonging. Along the way, I thwarted kidnappers, fended off predators and con men, leapt clear of murderous pickup trucks, and escaped evangelists of every stripe. I reached Big Sur and found splendor-but no one to share it with. When I called home from a payphone, I learned that my closest friend had just been murdered...while hitchhiking!
I pressed on, ready to die for an invitation to live. Camping with a dying man in the desert, I was finally forced to choose - keep waiting for the world to welcome me. Or welcome the world. THE CHURCH OF ALL AWRY is a humerous American adventure memoir that will appeal to readers who feel alienated by the lives laid out for them and are searching for purpose outside conventional structures. It is ultimately a hopeful story of stepping forward into agency, connection, and grace.
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