The debut memoirRedneck Awakening
by Jennifer Evridge
Available NOW"I spent forty years holding my breath."
Where it startedSurviving trauma. Searching for God outside the standard religion.
It stood for hard work, faith, Southern cooking, fireflies, "yes ma'am" and "no sir." But there was also silence, generational trauma, racism, sexism, and grief — all of it we drank with our sweet tea.
Redneck Awakening is a raw memoir about surviving trauma, searching for God outside the standard religion, and learning that the body holds what we refuse to look at. It's a survival story, a spiritual witnessing, and a medical memoir — a journey through breakdowns, strange spiritual experiences, love, loss, and a double lung transplant that became both a physical and a spiritual wake-up call.
This is not a story about becoming enlightened. It's the story of the journey she's on while learning to love herself, tell the truth, and breathe again.
Three threads, one storyWhat kind of book this is
I
A survival story
Trauma, silence, and the long work of surviving a childhood and a life that asked too much, too early.
II
A spiritual witness
Observing the many ways people encounter the sacred with an open mind and an investigator's eye.
III
A medical memoir
What it means when the body holds what we refuse to look at, and a double lung transplant that changed everything.
Out now