UID:
kobvindex_HPB608211868
Format:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
ISBN:
9780472022274
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047202227X
Content:
"Waiting for the Call takes readers from the foothills of the Appalachians—where Jacqueline Taylor was brought up in a strict evangelical household—to contemporary Chicago, where she and her lesbian partner are raising a family. In a voice by turns comic and loving, Taylor recounts the amazing journey that took her in profoundly different directions from those she or her parents could have ever envisioned. Taylor's father was a Southern Baptist preacher, and she struggled to deal with his strictures as well as her mother's manic-depressive episodes. After leaving for college, Taylor finds herself questioning her faith and identity, questions that continue to mount when—after two divorces, a doctoral degree, and her first kiss with a woman—she discovers her own lesbianism and begins a most untraditional family that grows to include two adopted children from Peru."
Content:
"Even as she celebrates and cherishes this new family, Taylor insists on the possibility of maintaining a loving connection to her religious roots. While she and her partner search for the best way to explain adoption to their children and answer the inevitable question, "Which one is your mom?" they also seek out a church that will unite their love of family and their faith. Told in the great storytelling tradition of the American South, full of deep feeling and wry humor, Waiting for the Call engagingly demonstrates how one woman bridged the gulf between faith and sexual identity without abandoning her principles"--Publisher's description.
Note:
Prologue: tongues of fire --
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The call --
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Mother's daughter --
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Cutting loose --
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Six-track mind --
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Why don't you just meditate on Jesus? --
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What'll I do with all my dreams of you? --
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Crashing out --
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Hand to hand --
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Marriage of addresses --
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Expecting --
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Are you listening, God? --
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Baby can't remember how to sleep --
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Some glad morning --
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Destiny --
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Which one is your mom? --
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We went to church on a Saturday --
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Broken --
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Sailing through the sky --
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Afterword: the voice in the night.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Taylor, Jacqueline, 1951- Waiting for the call. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2007
Language:
English
Keywords:
autobiographies (literary works)
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Biographies
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Lesbian autobiographies.
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LGBTQ+ autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.202040
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