Abby Bauman Hess's Reviews > All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

This is a gorgeous book. Not that it’s a perfect story, of course. But it is captivating and fascinating and I found myself laughing out loud and nodding my head up and down. I listened to the audio version, read by the author, and she is not shy with her native Southern accent— which makes it almost like a favorite movie.

The description of their first time at an Anglican church nearly made ME cry, too (like they did). The relief of the experience was so familiar that I almost could have written it, even though the details are different.

I’m struck by God’s faithfulness and work in spite (and through) intensely difficult and traumatic circumstances. No one’s story is perfect, but Beth’s gives me hope for my own.

“All of our difficulties… we SEND to the cross of Christ!”