“A Tender Struggle is a bold piece of writing (and thinking) by an incredibly brave woman.”
–Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things

“Lucid, heartfelt and profoundly humane, A Tender Struggle navigates the boundaries of religion and politics to arrive at the universal experience of love.”
– G. Willow Wilson, author of Alif The Unseen

“Utterly absorbing… a beautiful book.”
–Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

“Told with rare honesty, A Tender Struggle is the story of Krista Bremer’s lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one’s heart and keep it that way.”
–Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements

“A Tender Struggle is one of the most captivating and moving memoirs I’ve read in years. The story Krista Bremer tells–one of radical foreignness between a married couple–could be a metaphor for all committed relationships.”
–Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy

“I too was a San Diego longboard surfer stranded far from home with a mate who sometimes felt impossibly foreign to me, so this is my kind of book.  Krista writes the way I like it: soul-baring, plunged out of her element, grasping for meaning. “
– Poe Ballantine, author of Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir