Gone Astray

When Dorie Winslow's daughter, Phoebe, announces that she's joined Teens for Christ and has been born again, Dorie, a free-thinking, widowed English professor, is appalled. "I knew you were going to the rec center," she gasps, "but I thought you were playing ping pong, not being dipped in the blood of the lamb." Determined to deter Phoebe, Dorie unearths a 1970's journal chronicling her own intimate encounter with a maverick guru. She finally confronts the guilty marital secret that has paralyzed her emotionally, and, when Phoebe suffers a near-fatal accident, rediscovers a personal faith that frees her to love again. BIO Susan Washburn (www.susanewashburn.com) lives in southwestern Colorado. Her past publications include a nonfiction book, Partners (Atheneum 1981) and My Horse, My Self: Life Lessons from Taos Horsewomen (Casa de Snapdragon 2015). She has contributed articles on the behavioral sciences to several national magazines as well as Psychology Today, where she was once an editor. Her poems and short stories have appeared in literary journals and her essays have been featured in The Broad Street Review. Susan has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.