Emotional and empowering, The Redemption of Daya Keane is full of the kind of heart and truth that vibrates off the page." Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be We Are Okay meets The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School in this heartfelt, queer coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of a small town's evangelical megachurch culture. The end of Daya Keane's junior year in Escondido, Arizona, is anything but expected. And it starts when her longtime swoon-worthy crush, Beckett Wild, talks to her at a party neither of them should've been at. But as Daya's best friends, Stella and B'Rad, are quick to point out, smart, cute, artistic Beckett is also the poster girl for the wildly popular youth group Grace Redeemer, the megachurch Daya's mom prays at and pushes her daughter to attend. Amid the concert-worthy light shows, high-energy live band, and pastor preaching to love thy neighbor so long as thy neighbor "gets right with God" first, Daya struggles to find her place in a house of worship that doesn't seem to create space for someone like her. Then again, she never planned to fall this hard for a girl like Beckett Wild. Now Daya must decide how far she's willing to surrender to Beckett's world of Grace Redeemer, and who...
Emotional and empowering, The Redemption of Daya Keane is full of the kind of heart and truth that vibrates off the page." Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be We Are Okay meets The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School in this heartfelt, queer coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of a small town's evangelical megachurch culture. The end of Daya Keane's junior year in Escondido, Arizona, is anything but expected. And it starts when her longtime swoon-worthy crush, Beckett Wild, talks to her at a party neither of them should've been at. But as Daya's best friends, Stella and B'Rad, are quick to point out, smart, cute, artistic Beckett is also the poster girl for the wildly popular youth group Grace Redeemer, the megachurch Daya's mom prays at and pushes her daughter to attend. Amid the concert-worthy light shows, high-energy live band, and pastor preaching to love thy neighbor so long as thy neighbor "gets right with God" first, Daya struggles to find her place in a house of worship that doesn't seem to create space for someone like her. Then again, she never planned to fall this hard for a girl like Beckett Wild. Now Daya must decide how far she's willing to surrender to Beckett's world of Grace Redeemer, and who...