Skip to main content

Jesus Land: A Memoir

0.0
Pagine
363
Lingua
EN
ISBN
9781582433547
Tempo di Lettura
~6h 21min

Jesus Land: A Memoir è un book di Julia Scheeres. Conta 363 pagine.

Informazioni su questo 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.

Sull'Autore

Julia Scheeres è l'autore di Jesus Land: A Memoir. Esplora il suo catalogo completo su Booklogr.

Edizioni e Formati

Recensioni

Nessuna recensione ancora. Hai letto questo libro? Condividi le tue impressioni con la comunità di Booklogr.

Accedi Accedi per scrivere una recensione

Domande Frequenti

Quante pagine ha Jesus Land: A Memoir?+

Jesus Land: A Memoir ha 363 pagine.

Di cosa parla Jesus Land: A Memoir?+

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...

Chi ha scritto Jesus Land: A Memoir?+

Jesus Land: A Memoir è stato scritto da Julia Scheeres.