Unveiling Hidden Truths: How Stephanie Stalvey’s "Everything in Color" Transforms the Love Story Genre
But in her selective use of the first-person plural, Stalvey also writes for a generation of believers who grew up saddled with the expectations of evangelical purity culture. I felt like certain scenes Stalvey depicts were lifted right out of my life, passages cribbed from my adolescent journals. This isn’t to say Stalvey’s work is derivative or unoriginal; just the opposite. Rather, she takes experiences that were intimately familiar for so many of us — particularly white women raised Christian in the ‘80s, ‘90s, and early 2000s — and pairs those memories with adult insights and reflections that cut right to the core of them.
