In middle age, Barbara Ehrenreich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Ehrenreich and http://barbaraehrenreich.com/) 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 has been 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 plague many of us. This book is likely to spark a lively and heated conversation about religion, spirituality, science and morality. It is also a literary achievement of some style.
256 pages in Granta Books paperback edition
First published 1 May 2014
ISBN 978-1783780136
Barbara Ehrenreich