one Of The Most Compelling, Page-turning Memoirs To Come Along In Years-by Turns Jarring, Shocking, And Funny-a Keenly Moving Ode To The Dream Of Perfect Family
sinners Go To: Hell. Rightchuss Go To: Heaven. The End Is Neer: Repent. This Here Is: Jesus Land.
Julia Scheeres Stumbles Across These Signs Along The Side Of A Cornfield While Out Biking With Her Adopted Brother, David. It's The Mid-1980s, They're Sixteen Years Old And Have Just Moved To Rural Indiana, A Landscape Of Cottonwood Trees And Trailer Parks-and A Racism Neither Of Them Is Prepared For. While Julia Is White, Her Close Relationship With David, Who Is Black, Makes Them Both Outcasts. At Home, A Distant Mother-more Involved With Her Church's Missionaries Than With Her Own Children-and A Violent Father Only Compound Their Problems. When The Day Comes That High-school Hormones, Bullying, And A Deep-seated Restlessness Prove Too Much To Bear, The Parents Send Julia And David To The Dominican Republic-to A Reform School There.
In This Riveting Memoir, First-time Author Scheeres Takes Us With Her From The Midwest To A Place Beyond Our Imagining. Surrounded By Natural Beauty, The Escuela Caribe Is Governed By A Disciplinary Regime That Demands Its Teens Repent For Their Sins Under Boot-camp Conditions. Julia And David's Determination To Make It Through With Heart And Soul Intact Is Told Here With Immediacy, Candor, Sparkling Humor, And Not A Note Of Malice.
the New York Times - Alison Smithas The Story Gains Momentum, It Becomes Clear That Scheeres Is Driven By Two Things: The Fierce Love She Feels For Her Brother And The Rising Anger She Experiences As She Witnesses The Injustices He Endures. There Is Much Praise, These Days, For The Detached, Quietly Elegant Narrative. But There Is Little Mention Of The Power A Well-tended Rage Can Bring To A Good Story. It Is Scheeres's High Emotion And Her Tight Control Of Her Narrative Within That Emotion That Is Most Striking. Her Anger Serves Her Well: It Is Focused, Justified And Without A Trace Of Self-pity.
Categories:
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Memoirs
Publisher : Counterpoint
Author : Scheeres, Julia
Language : English
Edition : New
Published :2006-09-05
Number Of Pages : 384
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1582433542
ISBN-13 : 9781582433547
Item weight : 0.8 lb
Dimensions : 1.1 in x 5.3 in x 7.9 in
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