Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding Tapa dura - 2007

'This memoir deserves to be as popular as Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling Eat, Pray, Love.'
The Boston Globe

'Rather than offering easy epiphanies and candy-coated narratives, King's book is as honest and raw as the model of the spiritual memoir, the 'Confessions' of St. Augustine.To witness someone of such emotional dexterity and moral depth struggle is moving and instructive.King is nonjudgmental, generous and insightful about the spiritual journey.'
Los Angeles Times

'A story with depth, rare balance, humor, and with a near-perfect eye for what is important, true to the perception that sin, degradation, and scandal aren't that interesting,' but conversion is.'' A conversion story along the lines of St. Augustine's classic. You'll learn how grace works.'
Ron Rolheiser, author of The Holy Longing and The Restless Heart

'This is really the story of two callings to faith and to a life's worka riveting depiction of a lost soul found'
Kirkus

'I'm hugely grateful for this misfit,' and for her words, which I keep copying down into my own misfit notebook. In hard times, Heather King is one of the people of hope.'
Jean Valentine, National Book Award-winning author of Door in the Mountain

'In its structure and purpose, Heather King's Redeemed is not unlike St. Augustine's Confessions. That first Christian conversion narrative, often misconstrued as being an acknowledgment of past sins, is really a confession of faith in God and the luminous praise of a grateful heart. Similarly, in this well-written, insightful and funny book, Heather King, a frequent commentator on NPR's 'All Things Considered,' does not deny her hard life.Rather, she writes an eloquent hymn of gratitude and wonder for her Catholic life.'
National Catholic Reporter

'King writes from the heart.'
Rocky Mountain News

'A must-read for anyone on the spiritual journey that defines the essence of learning to live life on life's terms, while there's still time.'
William Cope Moyers, author of Broken

"A brutally honest, moving and heartfelt memoir."
America, The National Catholic Weekly