ISBN10: 1250280117, ISBN13: 9781250280114, [publisher: St Martin's Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. 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, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Beholden to The Familys strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse masked as godly discipline and divine love and is forbidden from getting a traditional education.At fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. There, she bravely enrolls herself in high school and excels, later graduating as valedictorian of her college class, then electing to join the military to begin a career as an intelligence officer, where she believes she will finally belong. But she soon learns that her new world surrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan looks remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind.In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Told in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured explores the dangers unleashed when harmful group mentality goes unrecognized, and is emblematic of the many ways women have to contort themselves to survive. An ...
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ISBN10: 1250280117, ISBN13: 9781250280114, [publisher: St Martin's Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. 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, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Beholden to The Familys strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse masked as godly discipline and divine love and is forbidden from getting a traditional education.At fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. There, she bravely enrolls herself in high school and excels, later graduating as valedictorian of her college class, then electing to join the military to begin a career as an intelligence officer, where she believes she will finally belong. But she soon learns that her new world surrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan looks remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind.In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Told in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured explores the dangers unleashed when harmful group mentality goes unrecognized, and is emblematic of the many ways women have to contort themselves to survive. An ...
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St. Martin's Press, Date: 2022-09-20. Hardcover. Used: Good. 2022. St. Martin's Press ISBN 1250280117 9781250280114 [US]

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