Our friend, Frank Schaeffer, has a new book coming out November 1, with the wonderfully long title: Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back.
This is Frank’s non-fiction memoir. Those familiar with the (fictional) Calvin Becker Trilogy (Portofino, Saving Grandma, and Zermatt) will know the outlines of the story. Schaeffer grew up in Switzerland, the son of prominent American evangelicals. As he grew older, and prominent in the movement himself, he became disillusioned, and finally abandoned it.
Jane Smiley has written a long, favorable review in the October 15th issue of The Nation (www.thenation.com/doc/20071015/smiley). Here’s a quote: “[The book] offers considerable insight into several issues that have bedeviled American life in the past thirty years, and. . .gives us not only a handle on the mess we are in but also quite a few laughs (if you can believe that).”
