Living with a Wild God (Ehrenreich)

Book Reviews
Using her [girlhood] journal extracts as a point of departure, Ehrenreich returns with vigor to her youthful quest, enlisting all of her subsequent scientific training to find an explanation for what had occurred to her as a girl, yet offering only a glimmer in her wise and tolerant later years of a possibility of a “living, breathing Other.”
Publishers Weekly


The New York Times best-selling author of Nickeled and Dimed, Ehrenreich set out to reconstruct an adolescent quest detailed in an old journal she discovered. Her youthful goal of understanding the truth of the universe—ambitious plan—took her through the study of science and several heightened experiences that now seem mystical. There's much for the adult Ehrenreich, an atheist and rationalist, to ponder.
Library Journal


In 1959, the 16-year-old author had an ineffable vision, which she here contextualizes and attempts to understand. Ehrenreich returns with a personal chronicle, a coming-of-age story with an edge and a focus: Who am I? ... A powerful, honest account of a lifelong attempt to understand that will please neither theists nor atheists.
Kirkus Reviews