Leaping from the Burning Train

This is a book about a girl who left home without quitemeaning to. One evening, doing her algebra homework, the sixteen-year-oldabruptly realizes the tight-knit fundamentalist community she has been raisedin may not have all the answers it claims to have. Then what to do with herfamiliar, immersive life: Sunday School, church, prayer meetings, vacationBible school, mother-daughter banquets, midnight vigils, revivals, and carwashes? In college, she discovers the language of poetry. It offersa pat