LIVING WITH A WILD GOD: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth About Everything

LIVING WITH A WILD GOD has officially been released and whether you’re contemplating wearing shorts in Toronto or cursing flurries in Calgary, this is a book we can all enjoy with a cup of tea. If you’re wondering what LIVING WITH A WILD GOD is about—it’s a memoir/spiritural inquiry (sort of) that explores the notion of God in a secular, rationalist world. Now, if you’re wondering why Barbara Ehrenreich, the brilliant author of over 20 books, including  NICKEL AND DIMED, and a well known atheist, would dare write a book about god and divinity then you should read her wonderful interviews with THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE and THE ATLANTIC. Here's an excerpt from THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE:

"I realized that whatever I experienced was not anything like a deity that I knew of. It certainly was not a good, caring God of Christianity. On the other hand, I knew it was way out of the reach of science, and I did feel uneasy. My younger sister was distressed that I wrote a book with “God” in the title. We are hard-line atheists, and I had to re-establish my credibility with her or I’d get booted out of the family."

There will be more fantastic press for LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, including an interview with Barbara in the Focus sectionof The Globe and Mail!Barbara Ehrenreich will also tour to Toronto on May 5 for an event at the Appel Salon. More details coming soon!

BOOK SYNOPSIS In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search.

Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, LIVING WITH A WILD GOD brings an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's uninhibited musings on the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. Ehrenreich's most personal book ever will spark a lively and heated conversation about religion and spirituality, science and morality, and the "meaning of life."

Certain to be a classic, LIVING WITH A WILD GOD combines intellectual rigor with a frank account of the inexplicable, in Ehrenreich's singular voice, to produce a true literary achievement.