
She Said God Blessed Us: A Life Marked by Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Church
by
Gail Hovey
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781476682778
Publication Date: 08/10/2020
When Gail Hovey was a teenager, her local Presbyterian church hired Georgia, a seminary-trained Christian education director. Brilliant and charismatic, Georgia used the language of faith to seduce several of her students, swearing each to secrecy. When she eventually abandoned the others and focused on Gail, Gail believed herself uniquely blessed and for the next 15 years modeled her life on Georgia'sthe seminary degree, the minister husband. The relationship had a profound and lasting influence on the woman Gail became and left her a legacy of guilt and shame. Shedding light on the largely invisible issue of sexual abuse of girls by women, Hovey's brave memoir relates her decades-long journeyfrom East Harlem to South Africa to Brooklynto break free of an overwhelmingly powerful and deeply destructive first love.
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