{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-call-jacqueline-taylor-9780472032389","title":"Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Well-written, absorbing, and a great pleasure to read . . . will appeal to Christians struggling to square their traditional beliefs with acceptance of homosexuality as well as to all those interested in adoption, lesbian marriage, and the changing shape of America's families.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Elizabeth C. Fine, Virginia Tech University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Call\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers from the foothills of the Appalachians--where Jacqueline Taylor was brought up in a strict evangelical household--to contemporary Chicago, where she and her lesbian partner are raising a family. In a voice by turns comic and loving, Taylor recounts the amazing journey that took her in profoundly different directions from those she or her parents could have ever envisioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaylor's father was a Southern Baptist preacher, and she struggled to deal with his strictures as well as her mother's manic-depressive episodes. After leaving for college, Taylor finds herself questioning her faith and identity, questions that continue to mount when--after two divorces, a doctoral degree, and her first kiss with a woman--she discovers her own lesbianism and begins a most untraditional family that grows to include two adopted children from Peru. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven as she celebrates and cherishes this new family, Taylor insists on the possibility of maintaining a loving connection to her religious roots. While she and her partner search for the best way to explain adoption to their children and answer the inevitable question, \"Which one is your mom?\" they also seek out a church that will unite their love of family and their faith. Told in the great storytelling tradition of the American South, full of deep feeling and wry humor, \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Call\u003c\/i\u003e engagingly demonstrates how one woman bridged the gulf between faith and sexual identity without abandoning her principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacqueline Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472032380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472032389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.88h x 6.15w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2007 pg. 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 20","brand":"Jacqueline Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119748903167,"sku":"9780472032389","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1bbd3443-a149-483a-9c99-d2896de7f7de.jpg?v=1687410751","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waiting-for-the-call-jacqueline-taylor-9780472032389","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}