Praise for "Easter Everywhere": " Lovely.compelling.[Thomas] Merton writes of the 'real and constant danger of carelessness and indifference . the millions of tepid and dull and sluggish and indifferent Christians who live a life that is still half animal, and who barely put up a struggle to keep the breath of grace alive in their souls.' Darcey Steinke has captured that struggle in painful but luminous detail. She's earned her measure of grace. And, like Merton before her, she possesses the skill and generosity of spirit to share it with readers." "-- Village Voice" " She drew this atheist reader deep into her devotional tale, seducing with prose that is rich and filling, with images that are startling and deep.

" "-- ""Los Angeles"" Times Book Review" " Is it any wonder that from the Redeemer to Augustine, from Pascal to W.H. Auden, it has been the doubters, more than the believers, who have kept up religion's good name? A skeptic in this tradition, Darcey Steinke is also, in her own way, a skeptic about the virtues of the contemporary memoir, now a mostly secular genre in which every human unhappiness is trendily medicalized or assigned its origin in a topical childhood trauma.I became riveted by Steinke's tone, a steady, lovely, hallowed, patient, things-in-themselves hum.[Easter Everywhere is] a delicately wrought little volume .This is a beautiful book." "-- New York Times Book Review" " " " [Steinke] serves sin and sainthood in equal portions, a dichotomy she continues to explore in her frank, beautiful new memoir, EasterEverywhere.Steinke tells her family saga with journalistic savvy, reporting on events rather than using them to force a point.

There' s no moralizing or gluey sentimentality.But even at its most measured, Easter Everywhere is full of surprises, especially as it maps out its author' s return to spirituality: She finds sacredness not just in churches but in " libraries, garbage dumps, the cruising area of public parks." This book is an excellent account of a writer going head-to-head with the divine and finding some inner quiet-- even in the darkest corners of her imagination." "-- Time Out ""New York" " Darcey Steinke certainly knows her way around characters and plot.it' s a joy to see her inner life finally exposed." "-- ""San Francisco"" Chronicle" " Steinke unflinchingly recounts years of disillusionment in her stumble back toward faith." "-- Entertainment Weekly" " A smoothly written memoir detailing the derailing of a minister' s daughter.at every conjuncture, the reader finds joy in Steinke' s journey.

" --"Booklist""" " Her writing.is blunt and powerful.Steinke is a gifted writer, and this.leaves readers wanting more." "-- Publisher' s Weekly" "You probably wouldn' t envy Darcey Steinke her childhood.But her resolve to keep her adult mind as bubbling with question marks and wonderment as it did in her days spent coloring outside the lines could sting even the world-weary with fresh longing.She writes so easily andpoetically of her childhood that the cheekiest sarcasm sails past like a smooth curveball.Steinke and her spritely daughter, Abbie, are an inspiring pair-- together hungrily posing life' s most sober questions and willfully facing skyward.

" "-- Elle" "I adore this book. Darcey Steinke beautifully leads us through her lifetime of spiritual seeking, from a childhood spent in the basement of her father's church, through a young adulthood of rebellion, into a mature and profound personal reckoning with the divine. She writes intelligently, honestly, movingly about a subject which is not always easy to address. It's an inspiration.""-- "Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love""" Praise for Darcey Steinke: " Few authors understand America' s darkest fears and obsessions like Darcey Steinke." -- "Village Voice".