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Julia Scheeres was raised as a fundamentalist Christian in the Midwest by a brutally violent father and a negligent mother obsessed with religion. Raped by one adopted brother, Scheeres forms a bond with David, her other brother, who is black, and the two manage to survive--barely--a truly horrific childhood, and then are sent away to a fundamentalist reform school in the Dominican Republic where they endured further abuse--but at least were free of their barely human parents. Scheeres reports all this with humor and an astonishing lack of rancor.
| Details | | Series: | ALEX AWARDS (AWARDS) |
| Size | | Length: | 356 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[A] scarifying memoir....A bristly summoning of unpretty events, conveyed with remarkable placidity."
Kirkus (07/15/2005)
"Scheere's book is a crisply written and earnest examination of the meaning of family and Christian values, and announces the author as a writer to watch."
Publishers Weekly (08/15/2005)
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