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Vice President JD Vance is back on the bestsellers list with his new book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.
Released Tuesday (June 16), the hardcover spiritual memoir shot to Number One on Amazon’s political biographies chart, and debuted on the overall Amazon books chart in the top five (as of this writing).
The news comes amid a big media blitz for Vance, who promoted his book on the friendly airwaves of Fox & Friends and Hannity, and with Megyn Kelly on SiriusXM, but also made a much-talked-about appearance on ABC’s The View.
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Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
From publishers Harper, Communion chronicles how a jaded Vance strayed from religion while growing up in the Rust Bust in his youth, with the Vice-President writing about how his “pursuit of material privileges ultimately led him into a secular wilderness,” per a book synopsis.
The book’s intro opens with the Vice-President writing about the “sheer chaos” every Sunday, as his kids rush through their morning routines, always asking, “Why do we even have to go to church?”
As he explains to the readers (and to his kids), the ritual of religion is something he believes can bring families together — and keep them together — while giving people hope for a better future. Vance also writes about “How a guy like me, who was raised Christian but considered himself an atheist for a time, came back to the faith.”
“The story of how I regained my faith,” he says, “only happened because I had lost it to begin with.”
The Vice President also seems to address his critics in the pages of the book, with the opening chapter titled, “What’s the matter with JD Vance?” He cops to misspeaking about his religion in past interviews as well, though he stops short of commenting about the administration’s open critique of the Pope. The book also focuses more on Vance’s personal story rather than his personal stance on social and political issues.
“I ask that you pin the shortcomings of this book on the man who wrote it,” Vance writes by way of an early mea culpa, “[and] not the faith that inspired it.”
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Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
Communion is available on hardcover and for Kindle, and you can also listen to an audiobook version of Communion, read by Vance himself. The audiobook has a run time of seven hours and 50 minutes. Stream it for free right now with a free trial to Audible here.
Though Vance is releasing a book about his connection to Catholicism, the Vice President does come from a multi-faith family, as his wife, Usha Vance, is a practicing Hindu.
The book follows Vance’s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.