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featuring their parents’ contact information and the child’s diagnosis in case they’re picked up by police suspicious of their divergent behavior. The social analysis is at times simplistic; for instance, the authors contend that “capitalism actively discourages play, every day, everywhere,” but they don’t address the fact that the toy industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing annually. Still, the tone is compassionate (“Your child may take some time in developing a skill and may need to revisit a phase—all of this is OK”) and parents’ stories offer insight into handling challenges, as when a mother describes how her autistic daughter’s refusal to wear sanitary napkins forced the mother to try out alternatives until discovering that period-proof underwear did the trick. It’s an empathetic look at how to meet kids where they are. (Jan.) a group of “exvangelicals”—loosely defined here as millennials and Gen Zers raised in white evangelical Christianity who are now “trying to make sense” of a more interconnected world, and “who they are in it.” Chapters cover the evangelical movement’s flash points, including its failures at racial reconciliation; rejection of the LGBTQ community (including the author’s grandfather, who came out as gay as a widower); and strict parenting advice that included corporal punishment. McCammon carefully dissects the lasting emotional impacts on those who’ve left the church and the role of social media in helping former evangelicals to deconstruct their prior beliefs. It amounts to a lucid picture of life inside the evangelical community and the complicated choice to leave. Agent: Margaret Riley King, WME. (Mar.)

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