United States Vice President JD Vance has a new book coming out that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. Source: National Catholic Reporter/AP.
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith comes out on June 16, the HarperCollins Publishers imprint Harper told The Associated Press on Tuesday. HarperCollins also released Hillbilly Elegy, the million-selling memoir from 2016 that helped make Mr Vance a national figure.
“The story of how I regained my faith, of course, only happened because I had lost it to begin with,” Mr Vance, 41, said in a statement.
“The interesting question that hangs over this book, and over my mind, is why I ever strayed from the path. Why the Christian faith of my youth failed to properly take root,” he wrote.
Mr Vance wrote the 304-page book himself, according to his publisher, working on it off and on since 2019, and it will include material on his time in politics. Vice presidents from Walter Mondale to Mike Pence have published books, but Mr Vance would be the first in recent memory to do so while in office.
The news about Mr Vance’s book followed Monday’s announcement by his wife, Usha Vance, that she has started a podcast called “Storytime with the Second Lady” to promote reading among children.
The Vances have three young children, and Usha Vance is pregnant with their fourth, a boy due in late July.
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JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith, ‘Communion,’ coming out later this spring (By Hillel Italie, AP, via National Catholic Reporter)
