At the peak of her fame, Julianna Glasse was a pop star and exemplary wife and mother, one half of a Christian power couple. She and her husband, a Major League Baseball star, led Bible studies for his team and their wives.
But when her love of reading drew her to books like Plato's Republic, De Beauvoir's The Second Sex and poems by Dickinson, Rumi and Rilke, something inside her shifted.
Slowly Julianna began to question things she had previously accepted as truth - something she knew her strict church community would forbid. She hid her books under the bed, in the linen closet, wherever they would not be found. But when her husband discovered them, his furious words would serve as her liberation: 'This is what happens when women read!'
