Using the journals she kept from her childhood, Turner revisits growing up in a cult that worshipped its leader who declared the world would end in 1975. Shuttled between communal homes across the U.S. hoping for a seat near the "Queen"- the cult's mother - she's constantly judging herself unworthy and racked with guilt over the slightest criticism. Shipped to her mother and mother's boyfriend who leave the cult, she's torn from everything she knows and thrust into the World, which she's been taught is evil. The true evil is her stepfather and mother. A bizarre and sad story that highlights how children are shaped by their caregivers and yet survive by their own will and belief in themselves.
Published: 2023 Read: October 2023 Genre: Memoir
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