Although the author, NPR reporter Sarah McCammon, recounts some of her own evangelical upbringing, this book mercifically avoids being just a memoir. It also avoids a large degree of bitterness, and in surveying and examining the white Americans who have left evangelical churches, the consistent theme seems to be a longing to belong and connect with family and traditions that have no room for them. I was struck by how separated many evangelical kids were growing up, in alternative schools, alternave sports leagues, bible colleges, etc. I was also struck by how the embattled mindset of many evangelical leaders contrasted with the height of their influence in power through the Republican Party, and impropbably, their embrace of Donald Trump. It's a good book, a thoughtful book, and it doesn't pretend to have all the answers, but it definitely cast more light on a big chunk of America whose motivations and contradictions often seem hard to understand.