Easter Everywhere
A Memoir
By Darcey Steinke
(Bloomsbury USA, Paperback, 9781596911383, 240pp.)
Publication Date: March 18, 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: Personal Memoirs, Women
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“I became riveted by Steinke's tone, a steady, lovely, hallowed, patient, things-in-themselves hum…[Easter Everywhere is] a delicately wrought little volume…This is a beautiful book.” —New York Times Book Review
In this critically beloved and piercing memoir, Darcey Steinke, a minister’s daughter, recounts her lifelong struggle to find religion. Though wide-eyed and accepting as a girl, Steinke left the faith in her teenage years; scene by breathtaking scene, she vividly describes the angst, embarrassment, uncertainty, and joy of her decades of on-and-off piety. Emotional, wise, and beautifully crafted, Easter Everywhere is a rare literary accomplishment, a feat of storytelling and personal insight.Darcey Steinke is the author of four novels, two of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her novel Suicide Blonde has been translated into eight languages, and her novel Milk has been translated into four. Her nonfiction has been featured in Vogue, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, Spin, the Boston Review, and the New York Times Magazine. She currently teaches at both Columbia University and New School University in New York City. She lives with her daughter in Brooklyn.
“I became riveted by Steinke's tone, a steady, lovely, hallowed, patient, things-in-themselves hum...[Easter Everywhere is] a delicately wrought little volume ...This is a beautiful book.” —New York Times Book Review
“She drew this atheist reader deep into her devotional tale, seducing with prose that is rich and filling, with images that are startling and deep.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“[Steinke] writes intelligently, honestly, movingly about a subject which is not always easy to address. It's an inspiration.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
“Steinke unflinchingly recounts years of disillusionment in her stumble back toward faith.” —Entertainment Weekly
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