Pre-Order: Jen Hatmaker's Book "Awake" (Hard Back Copy)

***Your pre-order for Jen's book will be available for pick-up at the shop - or will be shipped - at the end of September when the book debuts!

***If you want to pre-order her book AND attend our special inaugural book club event, you'll find the book + event listing here!

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“At 2:30am on July 11th, 2020, out of a dead sleep, I hear five whispered words not meant for me.
‘I just can’t quit you.’

My husband of 26 years is voice texting his girlfriend next to me in our bed.

It is the end of my life as I know it.

Awake is kind of a story within larger stories.

So it is a memoir and it is about the loss of my 26 year marriage and everything that I had built around that story, and then the recovery and the reinvention process, but larger, it’s also the story of religious trauma.

It is a story of patriarchy. It is the story of body shame and disassociation. It’s the story of gender limitations.

And so while it is my story, it is one that is fairly universal to women here in the middle of life.

And so it’s not just a sad story about divorce. It’s actually a really hopeful story about reinvention and recovery and building a pretty incredible second half of life.”