REBECOMING: From Fear to Faith

REBECOMING: From Fear to Faith is MK Parrish's flagship memoir, now expanded to thirteen present-tense chapters that read like she is in your head, figuring it out alongside you. It opens on a rainy set of church steps, with a QR code and eleven minutes she almost spends walking the other way, and it does not let go.

It is a book about fear, the kind that moves in like a roommate and quietly runs the thermostat of your whole life, and about the slow, unglamorous, profoundly human work of growing bigger than it. It is woven through with Scripture and the saints: the prodigal son and the persistent widow, the parable of the talents and the parable of the sower, Martha and Mary, the woman at the well, and the Word that turns out to be living and active after all. It is about being an empath in a world that keeps calling your sensitivity a malfunction, about prayer and novenas and the Blessed Mother, about a father's last phone call and an irrefutable family story of the afterlife, about a grandmother's rosary, and about a roomful of women who became the great loves of a life.

Above all, it is written to take apart a lie: that faith, and Bible study, and the warm rooms where people tell each other the truth, are for a certain kind of person and not for you. They are for you. This book walks down the steps, takes your cold hand, and tells you exactly what is on the other side of the door.

A portion of every sale is donated to my local parish, the beautiful old church that welcomed me before I had said a word, so the door stays open and the lights stay on for whoever comes next.