Whiteout

“Delving into her own spiritual and psychological encounters with difference, Lyn Brakeman employs metaphor, poetry, and wit. She presents the reader with a richly colorful quilt of vignettes that show a spiritual life sprinkled with sass, grit, and challenge, a life matured by wisdom and humor, as she continues to theologically reflect on unfolding aspects of the Divine through everyday experience.”

Jeffrey Mills

“Whiteout is a bravely candid and reflective book, in which the author uses stories from her life (she calls them ‘scenes’) as points for exploring racism, along with other ‘-isms.’ She is a gifted storyteller, taking the reader into significant events and relationships on her path to growing self-awareness. With humor and humility, she weaves her faith and ministry into her reflections.”

Chilton R. Knudsen

“There are not many times we have an opportunity to read a life story that reflects some of the trials you have experienced. This is a story that recognizes what life and its experiences are. We may look for the hero to save and comfort us, but in real life there are only self-heroes. This story captures life—its heartaches, misfortunes, and the unexpected—yet by some unjustifiable grace, we find and realize our purpose. This story is provoking and a challenge yet mindful and respectful to those brave enough to read it.”

Julian K. Fredie Jr.

“Lyn Brakeman invites the reader into a frank and fearless conversation in which an array of anecdotes from her own life speak to the times she has lived in, and that we all live in now. A memoir in many acts, this engaging and at times confronting book also amounts to a narrative manifesto against racism and all forms of oppression.”

Andrew McGowan