15/05/2026
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While I did buy the physical copy, I ended listening to this via audiobook so I could multitask a bit. The narration for the audiobook was great, even if the music behind the preacher’s editorial wasn’t my favorite (I understand making audiobooks into an entire production, but I would prefer the story simply be read to me without any embellishments).
Set within a rigid church community in Mississippi, this story explores how the power hungry patriarchy, under the guise of piety, serves as the source of confusion and suppression to the women of such communities. The women within this book have it engrained within them to ignore and even deny the wrongs delivered to them by the men they are trained to trust. Though, when the abuse of power is heightened in the preacher’s son, Wonder, the women in his life can’t seem to brush it under the rug.
Having grown up within a religious community that was not quite as rigid as Baptists, I value the message this book delivers. While we live in a world that seems to embrace cultural advances, at least here in America, it can be hard to believe that there are still thriving communities that are rigidly oppressive…especially toward women.
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