I'm Good, I Swear

She had the rules of her small southern town memorized: be good, stay sweet, and whatever you do... don't make it weird. She followed them faithfully, all the way into an isolated Bible college with lamb butchering after-parties, through a years-long spiral of moral anxiety she didn't have a name for yet, and into a body breaking down in ways no one could quite explain. Real university showed her what it was like going out with friends for the first time, running through New York City in the rain, sitting in a campus reverend's office asking questions she had never been allowed to ask, all whilequietly grieving the version of herself she had spent her whole life trying to be.In I'm Good, I Swear, Carrie York writes with humor and devastating honesty about growing up a cult-bound southern girl who finds herself within the long, unladylike and radical act of learning to be human.It's good. She swears.