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Jesus land : a memoir
- Title
- Jesus land : a memoir / Julia Scheeres.
- Author
- Scheeres, Julia.
- Publication
- New York : Counterpoint, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- 356 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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 1980's 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 1582433380 (hc) :
- LCCN
- 2005014816
- OCLC
- ocm61750350
- SCSB-5215736
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries