• I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here On Earth

In Brenda Peterson’s unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author’s childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world. Peterson survived fierce “sword drill” competitions demanding total recall of the Scriptures and awkward dinner table questions (“Will Rapture take the cat, too?”) only to find that environmentalists with prophecies of doom can also be Endtimers. Peterson paints such a hilarious, loving portrait of each world that the reader, too, may want to be Left Behind.

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AUTHOR/NARRATOR

Brenda Peterson is the critically acclaimed author of over 20 books, including the novel Duck and Cover, a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” now in audiobook. Her first memoir, Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals, was chosen as a “Best Spiritual Book of the Year.”  The author narrates her second memoir, I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth. It was chosen as an Indie Next “Best Top Read” and named among the “Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year” by The Christian Science Monitor. Forbes chose Peterson’s Wolf Nation as a “Best Conservation Book of the Year. Library Journal gave Peterson’s new book, Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals a prestigious starred review. Peterson lives on the Salish Sea in Seattle, Washington. For more audio/video and back-story on Peterson’s books, please visit: www.BrendaPetersonBooks.com

I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here On Earth

Author: Brenda Peterson

Narrator: Brenda Peterson

ISBN: 9781593166267

SRP: $19.95

Length: 10:33:00

Item No: PL085

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