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Jesus Land, MP3-CD by Scheeres, Julia; Evans, Elizabeth (NRT), Brand New, Fre...

Jesus Land, MP3-CD by Scheeres, Julia; Evans, Elizabeth (NRT), Brand New, Fre...

$ 6.38

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  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Language: English
  • Condition: Brand New
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    Jesus Land, MP3-CD by Scheeres, Julia; Evans, Elizabeth (NRT), ISBN 1522603026, ISBN-13 9781522603023, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
    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 Caribea 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.