OCD, House of Prayer & Exchange Student: Coming Attractions

By Maryann Yin 

Happy Thursday. Here are some choice selections from our New Books section.

Finding My Breath: My Journey from OCD to Yoga by Rochelle Lynn Falack: “A remarkable first-person story, from being forced to eat eggs scrambled with cockroaches to her infant daughter’s meningitis to her husband’s escape into drugs; and from her mind-altering trip to a yoga master in Bali, then back to her Jewish New York home and a community still unsure of whether to accept what she’s done.” (September 10th)

Year of Our Lord by T.R. Pearson: “A 94-page visual journey includes Pearson’s lyrical prose accompanied by the haunting photos of world-famous art photographer Langdon Clay. The real-life account hones in on Lucas McCarty, the lone white congregant in the African-American Trinity House of Prayer Holiness church in the Mississippi Delta.” (October 25th)

Van Diemen at 17 by Jeania Kimbrough: “A troubled teenage exchange student falls in love with the counselor who’s meant to set her back on track. Set in mid-eighties Australia, Van Diemen at 17 is a novel about dealing with the unexpected, moving forward, and bittersweet love.” (December 11th)

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