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SUMMARY:Books On Tap (BOT) - A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Whiskey Barrel\, 251 East Main St\, Stratford\, 
 CT. We will meet at 7:00pm and then start our discussion at 7:30pm. Please 
 tell all your friends this is so exciting. We will be discussing A Well 
 Trained Wife by Tia Levings. Copies are available at the check out desk. 
 Let me know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing 
 everyone.\n\nBook Synopsis:\n\n\nRecruited into the fundamentalist 
 Quiverfull movement as a young wife\, Tia Levings learned that being a good 
 Christian meant following a list of additional life principles––a 
 series of secret\, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife 
 in Christian Patriarchy included strict discipline\, isolation\, and an 
 alternative lifestyle that appeared wholesome to outsiders. Women were to 
 be silent\, “keepers of the home.”\n\nTia knew that to their neighbors 
 her family was strange\, but she also couldn't risk exposing their secret 
 lifestyle to police\, doctors\, teachers\, or anyone outside of their 
 church. Christians were called in scripture to be “in the world\, not of 
 it.” So\, she hid in plain sight as years of abuse and pain followed. 
 When Tia realized she was the only one who could protect her children from 
 becoming the next generation of patriarchal men and submissive women\, she 
 began to resist and question how they lived. But in the patriarchy\, a 
 woman with opinions is in danger\, and eventually\, Tia faced an urgent and 
 extreme choice: stay and face dire consequences\, or flee with her 
 children.\n\nTold in a beautiful\, honest\, and sometimes harrowing voice\, 
 A Well-Trained Wife is an unforgettable and timely memoir about a woman's 
 race to save herself and her family and details the ways that extreme views 
 can manifest in a marriage.\n\n\n
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