Nothing: Something to Believe in (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781591025290)

What is it like to grow up in a house with no religion? What kind of experiences does someone have when one is not a believer and yet comes into constant contact with religion? How can a person find out what they are when they focus primarily on what they are not? These are the questions raised in the memoir Nothing. With humor, wit, and poignant insight, Nica Lalli recounts her mishaps and misadventures with religion from early childhood into her adult years. As a questioning child, unsure of her idea of God, then a teenager feeling like an outsider, and finally an adult mother confronted by her husband's born-again Christian family and questions from her own children, Nica vividly describes her struggle to find out what kind of "something" she really is. In the end, the author finds that "nothing" is a philosophy to be embraced rather than feared.Nothing is an appealing, sensitively written story that offers hope, humor, and reason to millions of similar Americans who feel alienated in an ever more religiously polarized nation.

Author: Nica Lalli
ISBN-10: 159102529X
ISBN-13: 9781591025290
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2007
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.44w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 03/01/2007 pg. 246
Christian Century 07/24/2007 pg. 41
Publishers Weekly 10/22/2007