Ms. Winner has a unique and intimate voice, and I enjoyed listening to her tell her story. Still, I agree with the other reviewers that she fails to offer any signs of awareness of her journey in a larger context. I have a ton of questions that this book brought up and it disappointed that she didn't seem able to offer any perspective - making this less of a memoir and more of a journal.

My questions that I was left with -

What does it mean to leave Judaim? Not just in a personal sense, but in the South, in America, in the post-Holocaust world.

How can she be sure that her new committment to Christianity isn't just another passionate phase?

What does it mean that her phases of faith coincide with phases of infactuation with boys of that faith?

And has she noticed that she seems to be searching for a real family at every stage of her spiritual and emotional journey? Has she found that home in Christianity? Her later books suggest she hasn't, and you sense that pervasive sense of displacement throughout this book.

Her writing style kept me reading, but the lack of reflection left me wondering how this book got published.