About finding your voice and speaking your truth, despite the potentially eternal consequences of doing so. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and highly recommend it, particularly to readers who identify as having had an alternative or different childhood. I feel personally richer and more resilient for having read it. –Sharon Esteves

Chasing Eden, a sensitively written memoir set in the cage of religious fundamentalism, captures the confusing nuances of childhood abuse. You can see, hear, smell, feel, and taste one little girl's gradual awakening, but Clough creates space for her family members' complexities and motivations as well. In the pages of this story, readers will discover insights for their own awakenings and be led a step further into the light of healing. -Natalie Hoffman, Author of Is It Just Me?

As a literary scholar, I was compelled by the fine tensions and suspense Clough builds in her memoir, as well as her internal thought process. She brings a mature, introspective voice to her life story, something that is missing in other memoirs. The end is hopeful and teases the possibility of more stories to be told. -Bonnie Mclean

Cherilyn Clough has managed to keep a child-like simplicity and naiveté in her recounted memories of growing up that has the uncanny effect of pulling the reader right back into those tender–and often tortured–stages with her. Clough's story has the tension and energy to motivate staying up late to repeatedly promise oneself, "I will read just one more chapter." -Cynthia Rempel Zirkwitz

As someone who is obsessed with memoir, I can say this one stands with the best. Readers will see similarities to the narcissistic fathers in both Educated and The Glass Castle but this in no way makes Cherilyn's story predictable. I was glued to my seat, fingernails dug in, going from tears of frustration and gasps of shock to being so angry that I wanted to throw my iPad across the room. However, and delightfully so, there were also enough laughs and beautiful moments to get me through the saga of neglect and abuse. –Jeanie Robinson