Easter Everywhere

Darcey Steinke's provocative approach and blunt delivery has earned novels like "Suicide Girls" and "Milk" well-deserved reputations for explicit material and frank depictions of relationships. "Easter Everywhere" offers striking spiritual memoir of her strict religious upbringing at the heels of a Lutheran minister father and an aging beauty queen mother. In one breathtaking scene after another, Steinke tracks her complex and changing ideas about religion and how these ideas are affected by her mother's nervous breakdown and her father's struggles with his parish, money, and his faith. "Easter Everywhere" is a brave memoir of God, and its effect on marriage, motherhood, and family.