Jesus Land
About this book
"Sibling bond is at the core of Jesus Land, Scheeres’s gritty, heart-wrenching memoir...A lesser writer would have buckled under the weight of this story...A page turner...Heart-stopping and enraging...There is much praise, these days, for the detached, quietly elegant narrative. But there is little mention of the power a well-tended rage can bring to a good story...Focused, justified and without a trace of self-pity. Shot through with poignancy." —New York Times Book Review
Subjects
- american authors
- biography
- biography & autobiography
- caribbean area, biography
- childhood and youth
- christian education
- christiona education
- church camps
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- collectionid:bannedbooks
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- cult
- dominican republic, social conditions
- education
- education, caribbean area
- escuela caribe (dominican republic)
- family
- fundamentalism
- indiana, biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- problem children
- problem children, education
- racism
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- religion
- social life and custom
- students
- united states, race relations