I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth

Peterson, Brenda

ISBN 10: 0306818043 / ISBN 13: 9780306818042

Published by Da Capo Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306818043
• ISBN 13: 9780306818042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 6W x 9H x 1.12D inches 6 inches width by 9 inches height by 1.12 inches depth
• Weight: 1.038 pounds
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Synopsis

In Brenda Peterson's unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author's childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world. Peterson survived fierce “sword drill” competitions demanding total recall of the Scriptures and awkward dinner table questions (“Will Rapture take the cat, too?”) only to find that environmentalists with prophecies of doom can also be Endtimers. Peterson paints such a hilarious, loving portrait of each world that the reader, too, may want to be Left Behind.

About the Author

Brenda Peterson is the author of several novels including Duck and Cover, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She lives in Seattle.