"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…mehr
"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 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"--
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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PREFACE XI AUTHOR'S NOTE XV PART ONE IN GOD WE TRUST 1 THE HEARTLAND 3 2 FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS 21 3 EDUCATION 41 4 HOME 61 5 BODY PARTS 89 6 VIRGINITY 115 7 SHARP OBJECTS 139 8 FREEDOM 157 PART TWO TRUST NO ONE 9 THE ISLAND 169 10 THE PROGRAM 193 11 DEAD BABIES 211 12 NEW GIRL 233 13 PRO-GRESS 255 14 RAPTURE 267 15 AGUA DE COCO 285 16 THE PASTOR 313 17 TURKEY 327 18 FLORIDA 339 EPILOGUE 349 AFTERWORD 357 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 363 AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIA SCHEERES 365 READING GUIDE 371
PREFACE XI AUTHOR'S NOTE XV PART ONE IN GOD WE TRUST 1 THE HEARTLAND 3 2 FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS 21 3 EDUCATION 41 4 HOME 61 5 BODY PARTS 89 6 VIRGINITY 115 7 SHARP OBJECTS 139 8 FREEDOM 157 PART TWO TRUST NO ONE 9 THE ISLAND 169 10 THE PROGRAM 193 11 DEAD BABIES 211 12 NEW GIRL 233 13 PRO-GRESS 255 14 RAPTURE 267 15 AGUA DE COCO 285 16 THE PASTOR 313 17 TURKEY 327 18 FLORIDA 339 EPILOGUE 349 AFTERWORD 357 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 363 AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIA SCHEERES 365 READING GUIDE 371
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