A poignant memoir of Philip Yancey's childhood, exploring faith, family secrets, and the turbulent South post-WWII.
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A poignant memoir of Philip Yancey's childhood, exploring faith, family secrets, and the turbulent South post-WWII.
'Not until college days do I discover the shocking secret of my father's death.' With a journalist's background Philip Yancey is widely admired for taking on the more difficult and confusing aspects of faith. Now in Where the Light Fell he shares, for the first time, the painful details of his own origins - taking us on an evocative journey from the backwoods and Bible-belt pockets of the South to the bustling streets of Philadelphia; from trailer parks to church parking lots; from dark secrets ...
will contain mild spoilers
No romantic or sexual content depicted.
No violence or gore depicted.
No profanity or strong language depicted.
No substance use depicted.
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes depicted.
Central focus on fundamentalist Christianity, church life, and faith struggles.
No fantasy magic or witchcraft depicted.
No real-world occult or demonology content depicted.
Strong themes of racism and Civil Rights movement in post-WWII South.
No self-harm or suicide themes depicted.
Depictions of emotional struggles and family dysfunction in childhood.
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