"Both tender and unsparing, A Beginner's Guide to Faults follows one woman's search for meaning amid the unraveling of both her marriage and faith. With whip-smart insight and an unfailingly wry sense of humor, Denice Turner reveals how even our deepest failures can become a kind of wisdom." -- Eleanor Brown , New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters "Denice Turner's A Beginner's Guide to Faults is both a memoir of an extraordinary life and an unusual love story. It's a book of transformations, where each character you think you have pegged undergoes some alchemy, some phase shift, some quake of reality and becomes someone more nuanced and true. It's a masterfully written journey through Turner's interior landscape, terrain shaped by seismic forces of faith, love, desire, and joy." -- Cris Harris , author of I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart "Turner's writing is unflinching, often disarming, and funny. Her skill with figurative language is a delight. This is a literary book with exquisite descriptions and incisive observation.

Turner can write!" -- Tom Romano , professor emeritus, Miami University, author of A Boyhood at Red's: Growing up in My Dad's Neighborhood Bar.