Circle of Hope is Pulitzer Prize-winner Eliza Griswold's soaring searing examination of what
it means for a community to love to grow and crucially to disagree. Named a Best Book of
the Year by the New York Times Washington Post New Yorker NPR Minnesota Star Tribune
and Publishers Weekly National Book Award Finalist 'Glows on every page . . . nearly
miraculous.' - Boston Globe 'Lyrical probing and deeply reported this is an extraordinary
account.' - Patrick Radden Keefe author of Empire of Pain 'Marvelous.' - New York Times ~
~ ~ Over forty years Circle of Hope grew from a small family gathering into an
extraordinary Philadelphia church with four thriving congregations dedicated to fighting for
gender equality and an end to racial discrimination. In their pursuit of social justice the
church offered hope to believers of all kinds - from outcasts to addicts - in a radical mission
to improve the world. Then in the wake of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter Circle of Hope was
forced to confront its own mistakes plunging the community into existential crisis. Circle
of Hope tells a propulsive layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. Building
on years of deep reporting Pulitzer Prize-winner Eliza Griswold offers an intimate portrait of
pastors and church members in their desperate struggle to hold a community together despite
their dividing truths. ~ ~ ~ 'Eliza Griswold is a dazzling reporter: ever observant wise
sympathetic and honest. And in this spellbinding book.' - David Grann author of Killers of
the Flower Moon and The Wager 'A sharply contemporary book painfully honest stubbornly
hopeful.' - Archbishop Rowan Williams author of Passions of the Soul 'That rarest of books:
an examination of the sacred and spiritual realm captured with humor humanity and style.' -
Susan Orlean author of On Animals
