Texas writer Donna Johnson will be reading from her new book, Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir, at the Newark Library at noon on Friday, October 28, 2011. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
In Holy Ghost Girl, Johnson recounts her childhood amongst the Terrellites—followers of the Evangelical tent revivalist David Terrell. Between the ages of 3 and 17, she watched the change from sawdust revivalism to secret families and tax evasion and everything in between. Jeanette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, says Holy Ghost Girl “takes you inside a world where God and sin and miracles and deceit and love are so jumbled together you can’t tell them apart.”
The book has enjoyed positive reviews from the New York Times, BookPage, Oprah Magazine, and Kirkus, and has just made Publisher Weekly's Top Ten List of Memoirs for Fall, 2011.Watch the Holy Ghost Girl book trailer here!
http://www.holyghostgirlbook.com/
“It’s a remarkable story and one that I will not soon forget!” That’s a very high compliment – I’m so glad this book was such a hit with you.
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