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Struggle Central: Quarter-Life Confessions of a Messed Up Christian

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My first book! It’s an honest memoir about leaving my childhood home, enduring isolation and bullying as a closeted Christian teen, and searching for purpose and belonging across the country as a young adult. This updated 10-year anniversary edition features a new afterword reflecting on trauma, faith, and identity, as I revisits the joys, regrets, and lessons learned from a decade-long journey.

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My first book! It’s an honest memoir about leaving my childhood home, enduring isolation and bullying as a closeted Christian teen, and searching for purpose and belonging across the country as a young adult. This updated 10-year anniversary edition features a new afterword reflecting on trauma, faith, and identity, as I revisits the joys, regrets, and lessons learned from a decade-long journey.

Get a Signed Paperback or Hardcover Copy!

When you order Struggle Central through my store, I personally sign each paperback or hardcover copy and can include a custom message just for you or your gift recipient. If you want something special written, just leave a note during checkout!

Shipping Information: Free shipping is included for all orders within the United States; sales tax, including tax on shipping, applies to NC residents. If you’re interested in placing an order from outside the US, please contact me first. I’d love to send you a copy!

Full Description

After an Eden’s upbringing in eastern Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Tom Zuniga’s world suddenly gave root to an alien existence of struggle. Initiated by an 800-mile move from the only home he’d ever known, he started warring in unforeseen ways: isolation at a Southern Baptist church and bullying at a Christian high school, all the while fiercely determined to conceal sexual secrets spanning his entire childhood. It wasn’t until after college with a fresh start in a new state and two pivotal summer excursions that a foreign thread of redemption started spinning among the struggle.
Struggle Central tells the quarter-life quest of an introverted Christian’s desperate cross-country search for purpose and belonging, both inside the Church and out. Brimming with tears of heartache and euphoria alike, Zuniga’s candid collection of “messy memoirs” follows life’s arduous journey through endless valleys and perilous climbs, reveling in the breathtaking peaks to be discovered along the way.

The 10-year-anniversary edition features a new afterword from Tom as he comes to greater grips with trauma and shame, his sexual identity within his faith, his "central struggle" in life, and his regrets and joys from writing this book a decade ago, along with all the other consequences in between.

Specifications

  • Publication date: ‎ April 29, 2013

  • Edition: ‎ 2nd

  • Language: ‎ English

  • Print length: ‎ 162 pages

  • ISBN-10: ‎ 1493582275

  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1493582273