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Katie Roberta Stevens combines her struggles as a 1960s Catholic schoolgirl trying to keep faith in a home ruled by a mentally ill mother who believed she killed Jesus. While searching for love in toxic relationships, she strives to create a stable family life in her memoir, "My Mother Killed Christ: But God Loves Me Anyway" (ISBN 0615438091).
Due to her mother's frequent admissions to mental hospitals, Stevens and her four brothers and sisters were forced to raise themselves near Newark, New Jersey, where they resorted to shoplifting for basic necessities, like food, toiletries and clothing. Her troubled childhood bled into young adulthood as she searched for parental love within her romantic relationships -- she even had an affair with a priest throughout high school, married a man twice her age in college and had an affair with a married man for 12 years.
"Despite all of the changes since my story began in the 1960s, one truth will never change," Stevens says. "Regardless of where you were born, education is the golden ticket to a better life."
Stevens wants to show through her memoir that teachers have the opportunity to make a dramatic change in the lives of at-risk students. Rather than simply throwing money at the system, she encourages the country to create an educational environment that allows competent teachers to make a personal connection with every student, which in turn will create more proficient learners. For Stevens, one teacher scribbling five or six words of praise across her high school journal saved her life.
"My Mother Killed Christ: But God Loves Me Anyway" is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels. "My Mother Killed Christ: But God Loves Me Anyway" is also available in Kindle e-book format.
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