Forager prophecy of the sisters

Forager prophecy of the sistersA moving, heartbreaking, and lyrical true story of the authors escape from an apocalyptic cultand the survival skills that led to her freedom. As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was born into an ultra religious cult, the Field, started in the 1930s by her grandfather, who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live five hundred years and ascend to the heavens when doomsday came.

illiterate mother

canny Nell makes herself indispensable to Aunt Kate

and taste bud covered

and design plans to pull it all together

And I'd do anything to make things right with her

The riveting new novel by the acclaimed author of Sugar Run

TEMPTATION NEVER TASTED SO SWEET

Criminals -- even low-level nonviolent offenders -- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view

her New York Times editor needs his edit

as her hunt for allies grows increasingly desperate

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