The Author (Glennon Doyle)

Glennon Doyle is a best-selling author and activist for the rights of women, children and disadvantaged persons. As she portrays herself and her life in her book, she had a childhood and young adulthood defined by struggles with bulimia and with self-image. Those struggles, again as she portrays them, evolved into addictions and depression. When she became pregnant with her oldest child, she began a process of entering sobriety, self-discovery, and self-transformation. That process reached a particularly intense point of transformation when she met former professional soccer player Abby Wambaugh, fell in love, and entered into her first intimate relationship with a woman. The book is in part a chronicling of that process and of how the author’s transformation affected the lives of her children, her ex-husband, her mother, and others.

The book is also a manifestation of a fundamental truth about herself...