Good Slave | Paperback

GOOD SLAVE — Paperback

What happens when being “good” means losing yourself?



Raised as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, R.E. Chatterton learned early that obedience was more than expected—it was tied to love, belonging, and survival.

Good Slave: A Memoir of Faith, Control, and Freedom is the deeply personal story of a life shaped by faith, family, trauma, marriage, addiction, shunning, and the exhausting pursuit of being exactly who everyone else needed her to be.

But this isn't simply a story about leaving a religion.

It's about what happens afterward—when the rules you've followed your entire life no longer make sense, when the identity you were given begins to fall apart, and when you finally have to answer a question that once felt impossible:

Who am I when I'm no longer trying to be good enough for everyone else?

Told with honesty, vulnerability, humor, and an unwillingness to sanitize the messy parts, Good Slave explores the cost of obedience, the courage it takes to question what you've always been taught, and the complicated process of learning to belong to yourself.

You don't have to have been one of Jehovah's Witnesses to recognize yourself in this story.

If you've ever stayed too long, tried too hard to please, lost yourself inside someone else's expectations, or wondered whether you're allowed to choose a different life, Good Slave was written for you.

Paperback Edition

6 × 9 inches

$14.99

Freedom often begins where unyielding obedience ends.