A Well-Trained Wife by Tia Leavings Signed A sickly-sweet smell clings to

A sickly-sweet smell clings to the dimly lit walls

but also everything she ever wanted

” and the never-before-published “Procession of the Black Sloth

" —Colm Toibin

And for the love of all seven Gods

A Well-Trained Wife by Tia Leavings Signed A sickly-sweet smell clings toThe powerful NYT bestseller is now in paperback. Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasnt a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me. Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principlesa series of secret, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife in Christian Patriarchy