A Beginner's Guide to Faults

Denice Turner is a master educator and compulsive gardener who specializes in life story as a tool for healing and growth. She is the author of Worthy: A Memoir and Writing the Heavenly Frontier, books that explore how place shapes identity and narrative. She teaches English Language Arts and literacy at Black Hills State University.

"Both tender and unsparing, A Beginner's Guide to Faults follows one woman's search for meaning amid the unraveling of both her marriage and faith. With whip-smart insight and an unfailingly wry sense of humor, Denice Turner reveals how even our deepest failures can become a kind of wisdom." -Eleanor Brown, New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters "Denice Turner's A Beginner's Guide to Faults is both a memoir of an extraordinary life and an unusual love story. It's a book of transformations, where each character you think you have pegged undergoes some alchemy, some phase shift, some quake of reality and becomes someone more nuanced and true. It's a masterfully written journey through Turner's interior landscape, terrain shaped by seismic forces of faith, love, desire, and joy." -Cris Harris, author of I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart "Turner's writing is unflinching, often disarming, and funny. Her skill with figurative language is a delight. This is a literary book with exquisite descriptions and incisive observation. Turner can write!" -Tom Romano, professor emeritus, Miami University, author of A Boyhood at Red's: Growing up in My Dad's Neighborhood Bar