R/B Mertz

When a divorce moves young Rebecca Mertz away from rural Pennsylvania and their abusive father, Mertz and their mother find a new life in a conservative Catholic subculture outside of Washington, D.C. There Mertz's adolescence is dominated by fundamentalist Catholicism. Life becomes God, saints, and babies — except, of course, for the showtunes they latch onto, voices that permeate their childhood boundaries, singing about different worlds. Mertz...