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02643aam a22003617i 4500 001 95A38A12383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 230519t20242024nyu e 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1631498738 020 $a 9781631498732 040 $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a PN5123.K564 $b A3 2024 050 14 $a PR6111.I54 $b Z46 2024 082 04 $a 070.92 $2 23 082 04 $a 828.92 $2 23 100 1 $a King, Tracy $c (Writer), $e author. 245 10 $a Learning to think : $b a memoir of faith, superstition, and the courage to ask questions / $c Tracy King. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, $c 2024. 300 $a 319 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions, her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate. Her mother's dysfunctional reliance on the church deepened following the tragedy, and King, suffering from undiagnosed anxiety, stopped attending school. The account of her father's death remained hazy, made worse by the fact that four of the accused teenagers, neighborhood boys she could not avoid, were never charged. What could have triggered such an act of aggression? Clinging to hearsay and what little information she had from the police, King allowed her imagination to fill in the rest. Over the years, in a bid to balm her grief and gaps in formal education, King journeyed through multiple belief systems: she distanced herself from fundamentalism, searching for clarity instead in the occult, paranormal beliefs, and conspiracy theories. Amid the chaos of her coming of age, she stumbled upon a copy of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World on the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop , a discovery that proved transformative. Sagan's sage caveat, "But I could be wrong," became King's guiding light, empowering her to confront her demons. 600 10 $a King, Tracy $c (Writer) 650 0 $a Women journalists $z England $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, English $v Biography. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $x Religious aspects. 650 0 $a Critical thinking $x Religious aspects. 650 0 $a Memory. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240702031852.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95A38A12383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search