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Jesus Land: A Memoir

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Páginas
363
Idioma
EN
ISBN
9781582433547
Tiempo de Lectura
~6h 21min

Jesus Land: A Memoir es un book de Julia Scheeres. Tiene 363 páginas.

Sobre este libro

For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. For these two teenagers - brother and sister, black and white - the 1980s were a trial by fire.In this memoir, Scheeres takes us from the familiar Midwest, a land of cottonwood trees and trailer parks, to a place beyond her imagining. At home, the Scheeres kids must endure the usual trials of adolescence - high-school hormones, incessant bullying, and the deep-seated restlessness of social misfits everywhere - under the shadow of virulent racism neither knows how to contend with. When they start to crack (or fight back), they are packed off to Escuela Caribe. This brutal, prison-like "Christian boot camp" demands that its inhabitants repent for their sins - sins that few of them are aware of having committed. Julia and David's determination to make it though with heart and soul intact is told here with immediacy, candor, sparkling humor, and not an ounce of malice. Jesus Land is, on every page, a keenly moving ode to the sustaining power of love, and rebellion, and the dream of a perfect family.

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Julia Scheeres es el autor de Jesus Land: A Memoir. Explora su catálogo completo en Booklogr.

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¿Cuántas páginas tiene Jesus Land: A Memoir?+

Jesus Land: A Memoir tiene 363 páginas.

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For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. For these two teenagers - brother and sister, black and white - the 1980s were a t...

¿Quién escribió Jesus Land: A Memoir?+

Jesus Land: A Memoir fue escrito por Julia Scheeres.