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02360aam a2200325Mi 4500 001 1B17B95C7AD911EEB3B4743A5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231104011203 008 221214s2023 nyu 000 0aeng d 020 $a 9780593238523 020 $a 0593238524 035 $a (OCoLC)1354522931 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d IMD $d BDX $d TEF $d OCLCF $d SILO 082 04 $a 270.092 $q OCoLC $2 23/eng/20230216 100 1 $a Yancey, Philip, $e author. 245 10 $a Where the light fell : $b a memoir / $c Philip Yancey. 264 1 $a New York : $b Convergent, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 302 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found ways to venture out beyond the confines of their eight-foot-wide trailer. But when Yancey was in college, he uncovered a shocking secret about his father's death--a secret that began to illuminate the motivations that drove his mother to extreme, often hostile religious convictions and a belief that her sons had been ordained for a divine cause. Searching for answers, Yancey dives into his family origins, taking us on an evocative journey from the backwoods of the Bible Belt to the bustling streets of Philadelphia; from trailer parks to church sanctuaries; from family oddballs to fire-and-brimstone preachers and childhood awakenings through nature, music, and literature. In time, the weight of religious and family pressure sent both sons on opposite paths--one toward healing from the impact of what he calls a "toxic faith," the other into a self-destructive spiral. "I truly believe this is the one book I was put on earth to write," says Yancey. "So many of the strands from my childhood--racial hostility, political division, culture wars--have resurfaced in modern form. Looking back points me forward." 600 10 $a Yancey, Philip. 600 10 $a Yancey, Philip $x Family. 650 0 $a Christian biography $z United States. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Autobiographies. 941 $a 2 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025135.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20231104011830.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1B17B95C7AD911EEB3B4743A5DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search