Rebecca Martinez

Edge Play Rebecca Martinez

From drizzly Oregon shorelines to the diving reefs of the Yucatan and the steamy mountains of Costa Rica, readers are invited on an intimate journey through heartbreak, self-responsibility, and generational healing. In a radically honest and unencumbered voice, author Rebecca Martinez bares it all, from growing up as a reserved, mixed race child in 1990's suburbia to earning a Bible degree as a worship leader in a Pentecostal megachurch. She'd insulated herself with a husband, a house, and a baby... only to be interrupted by a hellish summer when a car crash, a cancer diagnosis, and a police shooting catalyzed the questioning and eventual unraveling of every belief system she'd carried into adulthood. Join the chaos as Rebecca weaves together a dizzying memoir about falling apart and rebuilding. Through stories of sex, love, psychedelic medicine work and heart wrenching self-reflection, Edge Play poses a central question: What happens when we peer over the edge, and is it worth mustering the courage to leap