… by Jeri Massi, a second installment of her Secret Radio series.
In a story that is often comic and often stark with the realities of coming to terms with life outside of her religion’s insularity and secrecy, Grace encounters kind friends everywhere: a courteous and warm hearted rationalist who makes her his protege, a former actress now living in obscurity who rescues her from danger, an African American Christian who gently reveals to her the decades of racism in Fundamentalism.
I haven’t read it, and tend to be wary of instruction/message novels (even John Steinbeck can get under my skin), but Jeri is a good writer, a real hero of the fight against clergy abuse, and clear-headed about the evils of fundamentalism, so go take a look.