I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart

2021 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, LGBTQ+ (Adult Nonfiction)
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This memoir of trauma, healing, faith, and violence centers on the author’s father, the Reverend Renne Harris, a heavy-handed, alcoholic Episcopal priest who came out in the height of the AIDS crisis and died of HIV in 1995. In a book rich with remembrances of the Pacific Northwest of the 1970s–1990s, Cris Harris pulls the reader through turning points in a household crowded with abuse, addiction, neglect, acceptance, and grief, as well as the healing that comes after reconciliation.