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The Rapture of Canaan

Sheri Reynolds · 1995

Sheri Reynolds's novel follows a teenage girl in a strict backwoods religious sect as faith, first love, and pregnancy collide.

Sheri Reynolds sets her novel inside a small, severe religious community founded by the narrator’s grandfather. Ninah, a teenage girl, is raised on fear and rigid rules, but her closeness to a boy her own age leads to a pregnancy that the sect cannot explain away. Torn between the faith she was raised in and her own conscience, Ninah must decide what she really believes.

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