Join the Launch Team for RIFT!
Today I’m opening up my launch team for RIFT: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy!
Bringing a book into a world is definitely a group effort, and I’m so grateful for everyone who has helped me get this far. My vision for the launch team is for you to have fun with me as I celebrate the launch of the book on April 30. Book club vibes but hopefully without the pressure!
Here’s what you will have access to as a member of the launch team:
PDF of RIFT sent to your email to read right away
Private Facebook group where we can have fun conversations and Q&As
Exclusive Zoom calls with yours truly
Giveaways
How you can help as part of the launch team:
Read the book early
Encourage your friends and family to preorder the book
Post a review on Goodreads and Amazon
Share on social media what you love about the book
All you need to do to join the launch team is preorder the book! Feel free to send me any questions. And please spread the word!
Let's get this party started!
“A powerful meditation on what it means to be trapped and what it takes to break free.” —Publishers Weekly Starred Review
A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms.
Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was homeschooled and could only wear clothes her father deemed modest. She was five years old the first time she was told her swimsuit was too revealing, to go change. There would be no college in her future, no career. She was a stay-at-home daughter and would move out only when her father allowed her to become a wife. She was trained to serve men, and her life would never be her own.
Until she escaped.
In Rift, Cait West tells a harrowing story of chaos and control hidden beneath the facade of a happy family. Weaving together lyrical meditations on the geology of the places her family lived with her story of spiritual and emotional manipulation as a stay-at-home daughter, Cait creates a stirring portrait of one young woman’s growing awareness that she is experiencing abuse. With the ground shifting beneath her feet, Cait mustered the courage to break free from all she’d ever known and choose a future of her own making.
Rift is a story of survival. It’s also a story about what happens after you survive. With compassion and clarity, Cait explores the complex legacy of patriarchal religious trauma in her life, including the ways she has also been complicit in systems of oppression. A remarkable literary debut, Rift offers an essential personal perspective on the fraught legacy of purity culture and recent reckonings with abuse in Christian communities.
Available April 30, 2024