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

by Brenda Peterson (Author)

In this picaresque memoir-a dark and divine comedy of family and faith-acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Brenda Peterson, embraces this earthly life while her relatives prepare fervently to leave it. As a "wild, rather odd, and unknowingly subversive child," she survives fierce "sword drill" competitions over total recall of the Scriptures and awkward dinner table questions-"Will Rapture take the cat, too?" Peterson paints such a hilarious and tender portrait that the reader, too, may want to be left behind. The memoir was selected by independent booksellers as a "Great Read" and an "Indie Next." Chosen as a "Top Ten Best Non-fiction Book of the Year" by Christian Science Monitor, I Want to Be Left Behind celebrates what the Los Angeles Times calls her "rich and often lovely life-full of humor and Peterson's own brand of faith."

Author Biography

Brenda Peterson is the author of 18 books, including the novel, Duck and Cover, a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year, which the Los Angeles Timescalled "hauntingly funny." Her first memoir, Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals, was selected as a Best Spiritual Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, and Oprah magazine. Peterson lives on Seattle's Salish Sea. www.BrendaPetersonBooks.com