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A Jehovah's Witness'Painful but Liberating Realization that She Must Give Up Her Faith“An inherently compelling and candidly revealing memoir... an extraordinary, riveting and unreservedly recommended read from first page to last.”—Midwest Book ReviewLinda Curtis was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and is an unquestioning true believer who has knocked on doors from the time she was nine years old. Like other Witnesses, she has been discouraged from pursuing a career, higher education, or even voting, and her friendships are limited to the Witness community.Then one day, at age thirty-three, she knocks on a door—and a coworker she deeply respects answers the door. To their mutual consternation she launches into her usual spiel, but this time, for the first time ever, the message sounds hollow. In the months that follow, Curtis tries hard to overcome the doubts that spring from that doorstep encounter, knowing they could upend her “safe” existence. But ultimately, unable to reconcile her incredulity, she leaves her religion and divorces her Witness husband—a choice for which she is shunned by the entire community, including all members of her immediate family.Shunned follows Linda as s

Who reads Shunned : How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself?

Author

Linda A. Curtis

Publisher

Berkeley, CA: She Writes Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631523298

Category

religious

Subjects

Memoir, Christian, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (315 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14