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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- Part I: The Family -- 1 SPARE THE ROD, SPOIL THE CHILD -- 2 A TALE OF TWO MOMMIES -- 3 ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD -- 4 ANOINTING THEM WITH OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD -- 5 HEAVEN'S GIRL -- 6 A HANDMAID'S TALE -- 7 BOOKWORM -- 8 THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT -- 9 ALL IN THE FAMILY -- 10 THE PROMISE OF PARADISE -- 11 APOCALYPSE NOW -- 12 COMING TO AMERICA -- 13 BABYLON THE WHORE -- 14 NOT FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD -- Part II: The System -- 15 DAZED AND CONFUSED -- 16 JESUS FREAKS |
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17 BRING ME TO LIFE -- Part III: The Army -- 18 DRINK THE KOOL-AID -- 19 YOU'RE NOT JAMES BOND -- 20 CAMP FOLLOWERS -- 21 A DAY MEMORIALIZED -- 22 US VERSUS THEM -- 23 COMBAT BARBIE -- 24 I'M THE BITCH -- 25 TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM -- 26 RUNNING FOR MY LIFE -- 27 MR. PRESIDENT, WE'RE NOT LESBIANS -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
"In the vein of Tara Westover's Educated, Daniella Mestyanek's memoir is a searing and powerful testament to a woman's ability to transform the circumstances of her life through inner strength and resilience. Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult the Children of God, also known as The Family. Beholden to The Family's strict rules, Daniella suffered physical, emotional, and sexual abuse-masked as godly discipline and divine love-and was forbidden from getting a traditional education. At fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life, Daniella escaped to Texas. She bravely enrolled in high school and then joined the military, where she believed she would finally belong. But she soon learned that her new world-surrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan-looked remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind. In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Uncultured explores the dangers unleashed when harmful group mentality goes unrecognised, and is emblematic of the many ways women must contort themselves to survive."--Publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Young, Daniella Mestyanek
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United States. Army -- Biography.
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Family International (Organization) -- Biography
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Family International (Organization) fast |
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United States. Army fast |
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Children of God (Movement) -- Biography
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Cult members -- Biography
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Ex-cultists -- Biography
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Cults.
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Children of God (Movement)
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Cult members
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Cults
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Ex-cultists
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Electronic books
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781761185755 |
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1761185756 |
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