American Leftovers

Eric Wilson · Heidi Wilson Messner · Shaun Wilson

Jun 2023 · Chalice Press · Narrated by Eric Wilson, Heidi Wilson Messner, Shaun Wilson, Mark Wilson, Matthew Messner, and Michelle Wilson

About this audiobook

American Leftovers is the story of Heidi, Eric, and Shaun, three children who follow their parents through eastern Europe on Bible-smuggling adventures in the early 1970s. When they return to the States, they face third-culture questions of home and identity. They also deal with sexual situations and abuse, while settling into an evangelical bubble with their parents who pastor a fast-growing church. Everything collapses when their father runs off with an eighteen-year-old girl, leaving behind his family and church. This forces Heidi, Eric, and Shaun to reconcile their own spiritual fervor with the lies and dysfunction so close to home.