Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

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 Caribea religious reform school in the Dominican Republic is characterized by a disciplinary regime that extracts repentance from its students by any means necessary. Julia and David strive to make it through these ordeals and their tale is relayed here with startling immediacy, extreme candor, and wry humor.

Scheeres, Julia: - JULIA SCHEERES' essays, articles and book reviews have been published in the New York Times, Elle, New York, Marie Claire, O 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 San Francisco Writers' Grotto.

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ISBN 13	9781567314083
ISBN 10	1567314082
Title	Jesus Land
Author	Julia Scheeres
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Mjf Books
Number of pages	268
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