In the 1960s, Frankie Roberts heard a preacher pronounce that a woman’s place is in the home, not in the pulpit. Frankie felt led by the Lord to leave Newark, New Jersey, her husband and to drag her four daughters to Sioux City, Iowa, to start a ministry. In this memoir, the youngest of Frankie’s daughters, the author, narrates her traumatic and abusive childhood as the victim of a religion gone too far. Availing herself of both humor and honesty, Torres-Reyes describes being raised by Pentecostal Holiness Ministers and living with a fanatical preacher mother who inflicts both physical and religious abuse on her siblings, the children at her church and herself. “The Evangelical’s Daughter” describes how the author ultimately breaks out of a self-destructive lifestyle, joins the military and later attends college and law school, finally becoming an Assistant United States Attorney and Vice President of the San Diego County Bar Association. This is one woman’s true story about finding God and leaving religious dogma behind.