Author Talk & Book Signing With Mary Katherine Backstrom

Join us for an Author Talk & Book Signing with author Mary Katherine Backstrom!

Join us on August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM (Central Time) for an engaging discussion with the talented author herself. Mary Katherine Backstrom will share insights about her latest book and answer questions. After her talk, she will be signing copies of her book. The event will be held in Court Street Books (610 S. Court St., Florence, AL, 35630). Doors open at 5pm— please arrive by 5:15pm to allow time for seating and drinks to be made.

Your $28 ticket covers admission and your hardback copy of Not That Wheel, Jesus! Don't miss this opportunity to meet the author in person, get your book signed, and connect with fellow book enthusiasts. It's going to be a night to remember!

"Mary Katherine Backstrom grew up the most basic of all youth group kids—pH level 14—and her faith only grew as she led youth ministry, served as a missionary, and went on to become a bestselling Christian author. She knew all the practiced, perfect Sunday school answers and was driving happily down the straight and narrow, until one day her young son asked a simple question: will my Jewish best friend go to hell?In the months and years that followed, that single question continued to snowball. MK challenged and reconsidered every part of the faith she’d been raised to accept so completely. Not That Wheel, Jesus! is Mary Katherine’s hilarious journey from certainty to doubt to going nuclear on the socials (“it was my heresy era”), and then of slowly and painfully finding her way back to a different, less defined faith.It’s the heartfelt and achingly honest story of a spirituality that went off the road and crashed and burned in spectacular fashion, right before God and everybody. And then, slowly, through grace and plenty of therapy, grew richer and deeper than she ever could have imagined."

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