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Julia Scheeres

Jesus Land

A Memoir

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Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen-years-old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s and their family has just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees, trailer parks, and an all-encompassing racism. At home are a distant mother-more involved with her church's missionaries than her own children-and a violent father. In this riveting and heartrending memoir Julia Scheeres takes us from the Midwest to a place beyond imagining: surrounded by natural beauty, the Escuela Caribe-a religious reform school in the Dominican Republic-is characterized by a disciplinary regime that extracts repentance from its s… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61902-134-1
  • EAN: 9781619021341
  • Produktnummer: 31917439
  • Verlag: Catapult
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'824 KB

Über den Autor


Julia Scheeres's essays, articles, and book reviews have been published in the New York Times, Elle, Marie Claire, O, The Oprah Magazine, Wired and other publications. Her second book, A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown, won the Northern California Independent Bookseller Association's Nonfiction Book of the Year award. She lives in Berkeley, California, and is a member of The Grotto.

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