Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed...

book: Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus | Diane Wilson

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Holy Roller: Growi...

	Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus Diane Wilson Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008 - 210 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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In this rollicking memoir, Diane Wilson?a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman?takes readers back to her childhood in rural Texas and into her family of Holy Rollers. By night at tent revivals, Wilson gets religion from Brother Dynamite, an ex-con who finds Jesus in a baloney sandwich and handles masses of squirming poisonous snakes under the protection of the Holy Ghost. By day, Wilson scratches secret messages to Jesus into the paint on her windowsill and lies down in the middle of the road to see how long she can sleep in between passing trucks.
Holy Roller is a fast-paced, hilarious, sometimes shocking experience readers won?t soon forget. It is the prequel to Wilson?s first book, telling the story of the Texas childhood of a fierce little girl who will grow up to become An Unreasonable Woman, take on Big Industry, and win. One of the best Southern writers of her generation, Wilson?s voice twangs with a style and accent all its own, as true and individual as her boundless originality and wild youth.

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Gulf Coast Awakening

What is the third thing between living and dreaming? Antonio Machado's epigraph to Holy Roller asks the question, and Diane Wilson answers in a memoir at once particular to her childhood on the back bays and bayous of the Gulf Coast and catholic in its theme of a girl's awakening. A fascinating story of snake handlers and shrimpers and a child trying to make sense of it all.

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