Book Reviews

"The message of Anita Swanson's book is not how to liberate one's self from a bad marriage, or the highs and lows of therapy; but rather, it is about the healing grace that comes from the self-acceptance and sureness of our faith. Slowly, she finds her way back to security and sanity."

Jennie L. Brown
Author of Blue Moon Rising: Kentucky Women in Transitions.

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". . .Swanson's writing is timely and courageous."

Maureen Murdock
Author of Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory.
and The Heroine's Journey.

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"I was hooked from the very first page. Her honesty, humanness, strength and vulnerability all were so brilliantly recorded. All who have ever experienced wounds of the soul will not only identify with her but will yearn for her God and desire to experience the grace that filled her holes and sustained her passage."

Rev. Donn D. Moomaw, D. D.
Former Senior Pastor, Bel Air Presbyterian Church

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"Wow! A very powerful story. Honest, reflective, and prophetic. It is about time Christians have a book to read that is not all about 'everything will be okay, and nothing is really wrong with my life.'"

Dr. Steven M. Marsh, D. Min.
First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, Erie, Pennsylvania

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Amazon and Writer's Digest give Slow Hope 4 1/2 stars.

Slow Hope was recently selected for the Voices in Action website, a national organization dedicated to healing from abuse.

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Slow Hope is an inspirational and cautionary narrative that explores in dramatic detail what it takes to heal and ultimately to triumph over abuse.