One ebook. Three of Avery Arbegast's most essential collections—Check Yes for No, SubOptimal, and Gods, Devils, and Human Empathy—together for readers who want the full range of the work: family silence and hidden hunger; fear, control, and the competence to continue; and what remains of ethics and empathy after a religious upbringing built on surveillance and fear.

Check Yes for No is a map of what we're told to hide. SubOptimal refuses rescue narratives. Gods, Devils, and Human Empathy walks past the point where fear stops being persuasive and asks what human empathy looks like without belief as a threat.

Not a "best of" of excerpts—three complete books. A sampler of the catalog's strongest doors in, for readers who prefer one purchase over three.

Includes the complete texts of Check Yes for No, SubOptimal, and Gods, Devils, and Human Empathy.