What happens when you deconstruct your faith? Aside from all the theological messiness it brings, deconstruction brings with it a lot of personal trauma. Friends and family often distance themselves. Your church sometimes removes you from the pews. And often, you are left with nothing more than rubble where a seemingly unmovable building once stood.

Enter Michelle Collins’ debut book, Into the Gray: The Mental and Emotional Aftermath of Spiritual Deconstruction. Far from a how-to guide, this book is much more pastoral in that it allows the reader to check in with a fellow spiritual sojourner so that, by the end of its pages, they can say me too.