In middle-age, Ehrenreich rediscovered the journal she had kept during her adolescence, which records an event, a 'mystical experience', so strange that she had never written or spoken about it. To a steadfast atheist and rationalist, was nothing less than shattering. In Living with a Wild God, Ehrenreich grapples with fundamental, deeply personal, questions of belief, attempting to reconcile this cataclysmic, defining moment with her secular understanding of the world.