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For fans of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and Lets Pretend This Never Happened comedian and Emmy Award–winning writer Sara Schaefers hilariously honest memoir follows Saras trip through the Grand Canyon with her sister that causes her to reflect on her childhood and the scandal that changed her family forever.When Sara Schaefer is in first grade her father warns hFor fans of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and Lets Pretend This Never Happened comedian and Emmy Award–winning writer Sara Schaefers hilariously honest memoir follows Saras trip through the Grand Canyon with her sister that causes her to reflect on her childhood and the scandal that changed her family forever.When Sara Schaefer is in first grade her father warns her to always tell the truth because one lie leads to another and soon you will find yourself in a hole you cant escape. A few years later the Schaefer family is completely upended when its revealed that their grand life is based on a lie. Her parents become pariahs in their upper middle class community and go from non-religious people to devout church members. The idea of good and evil as binary opposed forces is drilled into Sara and it becomes the perfect framework on which to build her anxiety and increasingly-obsessive thoughts.The year she turns forty Sara decides to take each member of her family on a one-on-one vacation culminating with a whitewater rafting journey through the Grand Canyon with her younger sister. The only problem is shes terrified of rafting. Along the way she grapples with unresolved grief over the death of her mother and the family scandal that changed the trajectory of her life.Heartfelt candid and witty Grand is a story about family identity and struggling to make something of yourself. Sara deconstructs her struggles with anxiety and depression what it means to be a good person and the radically discordant stories we tell ourselves and share with the world.(less)