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Kaya Oakes is the author of Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, and Telegraph. She is a contributing writer at America, Commonweal, Religion Dispatches, and Killing the Buddha. Since 1999 she has taught writing at mehr anzeigen the University of California, Berkeley. weniger anzeigen

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This midwestern Jew boy thought this memoir about rediscovering faith yet fundamentally disagree with the institutions that claim to guard and foster it by a California Catholic girl was really damn good.
 
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Smokler | 1 weitere Rezension | Jan 3, 2021 |
In "The Nones are Alright" Kaya Oakes shares the stories of young “nones,” religiously unaffiliated Millennials wrestling – often in fits and starts – with the role of God and faith in their lives. Far from uninterested in religion or embracing a strident atheism, Oakes reveals these young people to be deeply concerned with questions of faith and spirituality, although often in decidedly untraditional ways.

Oakes (herself an untraditional latecomer to Catholicism) spends a majority of the book exploring the stories of Catholic youth at various stages of moving away from the institutional Church; specific chapters focus on young women, LGBTQ nones, and young people who leave and then return to faith. Readers will benefit from the unvarnished stories of these young people, although those hoping to find strategies for keeping young people engaged in the Church will walk away disappointed.

N.B.: I received a free review copy of this book from the Catholic Library Association. This review was originally published in the December 2016 issue of Catholic Library World.
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sullijo | Dec 22, 2016 |
God, I don’t know what it is about female writers, but I have such a hard time reading them. They always seem to have absolutely no authenticity or confidence in their voice what so ever. Mind you 99% of what I read is non-fiction, and a large chunk of non-fiction is written by men. I try not to consciously seek and/or discover a really great female writer, but in the back of my mind I’m always hoping to find that rare gem: the great American female writer.

After reading about half of the introduction of Kaya Oakes examination of the evolution of Indie Culture I was nearly ready to poke both of my eyes out with the sharp corner edge of a chapbook. Oakes writes in a matter-of-fact, Jack Webb-like “Just the Facts Mam” monotone that was putting me to sleep faster than five shots of Benadryl on a balmy summer night. How can someone make something as fascinating as Indie culture so frickin boring? Here is a example sentence or two that I randomly picked by flipping the pages of the Introduction and then blindly sticking my finger into the book:

“While Unnameable Books does its best to keep the flames of Independent publishing lit, the highly anticipated Pitchfork Music Festival has kicked into gear in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, bearing witness to the massive popularity of Independent Rock. Chicago has been home to a booming indie scene since, blah, blah, blah.”

Jesus H. Christ, you can almost see the meladrone swinging back and forth, side to side, right before your very eyes. It’s as though she is stiffly managing to fit every write-by-the-numbers cliche from the Over-educated, culture critic’s playbook into every available inch of print that the book allows. Where is your frickin soul, sister? But you know what? This was just the introduction. I’ve read past plenty of shitty introductions in my life, only to go on and make my way to a number of mediocre, if not even a few above par non-fiction examinations. So about midway through the intro, I said “screw it”, I’m heading straight to chapter one.
Then on second thought, I said "fuck it. I'm not reading this crap. I have better things to do with my life, like cliping my toe nails or watching people eat sandwhiches. Anything..."
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