Apocalypse Child (eBook)

A Life in End Times

Flor Edwards (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
240 Seiten
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-68336-770-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Flor Edwards has been called "the real life Kimmy Schmidt." She delivers an impartial recount of a childhood overshadowed by the fear of death and the impending apocalypse, and unimaginable challenge of adapting to life after leaving a cult.

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For the first thirteen years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the Children of God. The group's nomadic existence was based on the belief that, as God's chosen people, they would be saved in the impending apocalypse that would envelop the rest of the world in 1993. Flor would be thirteen years old. The group's charismatic leader, Father David, kept the family on the move, from Los Angeles to Bangkok to Chicago, where they would eventually disband, leaving Flor to make sense of the foreign world of mainstream society around her. Apocalypse Child is a cathartic journey through Flor's memories of growing up within a group with unconventional views on education, religion, and sex. Whimsically referring to herself as a real life Kimmy Schmidt, Edwards's clear-eyed memoir is a story of survival in a childhood lived on the fringes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.3.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: Apocalypse • Apocalypse Child • Autobiography • Childhood Trauma • Children of God • chosen one • Christianity • Cult • cult children • cult documentary • Father • flds • growing up in a cult • kimmy schmidt • Life in End Times • Memoir • mother • new life church • radical • Rapture • scandal • Scientology
• ISBN-10: 1-68336-770-7 / 1683367707
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68336-770-3 / 9781683367703