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Circle of Hope: A National Book Award Finalist

Eliza Griswold
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  • ISBN 9781035420285
  • Weight: 245g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Aug 2025
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Circle of Hope is Pulitzer Prize-winner Eliza Griswold's soaring, searing examination of what it means for a community to love, to grow and crucially, to disagree.

 Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, NPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, and Publishers Weekly

National Book Award Finalist

'Glows on every page . . . nearly miraculous.' - Boston Globe

'Lyrical, probing, and deeply reported, this is an extraordinary account.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain

'Marvelous.' - New York Times

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Over forty years, Circle of Hope grew from a small family gathering into an extraordinary Philadelphia church with four thriving congregations, dedicated to fighting for gender equality and an end to racial discrimination. In their pursuit of social justice, the church offered hope to believers of all kinds - from outcasts to addicts - in a radical mission to improve the world.

Then, in the wake of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, Circle of Hope was forced to confront its own mistakes, plunging the community into existential crisis.

Circle of Hope tells a propulsive, layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. Building on years of deep reporting, Pulitzer Prize-winner Eliza Griswold offers an intimate portrait of pastors and church members in their desperate struggle to hold a community together, despite their dividing truths.

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'Eliza Griswold is a dazzling reporter: ever observant, wise, sympathetic, and honest. And in this spellbinding book.' - David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager

'A sharply contemporary book, painfully honest, stubbornly hopeful.' - Archbishop Rowan Williams, author of Passions of the Soul

'That rarest of books: an examination of the sacred and spiritual realm captured with humor, humanity, and style.' - Susan Orlean, author of On Animals
About Eliza Griswold
Eliza Griswold has written and translated five books of nonfiction and poetry, and Circle of Hope was named as a 2024 finalist for the National Book Award. Griswold was also awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, which was also a New York Times Notable Book and Critics' Pick. Griswold has held fellowships at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New America Foundation, among others. She has been awarded various prizes, including the J. Anthony Lukas Prize, a PEN Translation Prize, and the Rome Prize for her poetry. She directs the Journalism Program at Princeton University.

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