Rebecca

Sarah threw her life away for God.

When she realized she had feelings for her best friend,

Sarah drove her off. To prove she wasn't gay, Sarah

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slept with a boy from school. When she got pregnant,

she surrendered an acceptance to Yale in order to keep

her daughter, Rebecca.

Finally, God's messenger tells her she's proven her virtue.

She can have her life back the way it was.

In return, she only needs to kill her baby.

"Rebecca" is a terrifying descent into the maze of one young

woman's beliefs, a labyrinth of self-hate and religious

abuse which asks the same question at every turn:

What would you do for your God?

Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 301 pages

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