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Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church

Autor Lauren Drain Cu Lisa Pulitzer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mar 2013
NOW ANEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER

You've likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year old victim of the recent Tucson shooting, and Elizabeth Edwards, all in front of their grieving families. The WBC is fervently anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti- practically everything and everyone. And they aren't going anywhere: in March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the WBC's right to picket funerals.

Since no organized religion will claim affiliation with the WBC, it's perhaps more accurate to think of them as a cult. Lauren Drain was thrust into that cult at the age of 15, and then spat back out again seven years later.BANISHEDis the first look inside the organization, as well as a fascinating story of adaptation and perseverance.

Lauren spent her early years enjoying a normal life with her family in Florida. But when her formerly liberal and secular father set out to produce a documentary about the WBC, his detached interest gradually evolved into fascination, and he moved the entire family to Kansas to join the church and live on their compound. Over the next seven years, Lauren fully assimilated their extreme beliefs, and became a member of the church and an active and vocal picketer. But as she matured and began to challenge some of the church's tenets, she was unceremoniously cast out from the church and permanently cut off from her family and from everyone else she knew and loved.BANISHEDis the story of Lauren's fight to find herself amidst dramatic changes in a world of extremists and a life in exile.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781455512423
ISBN-10: 1455512427
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 165 x 241 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing

Notă biografică

LAUREN DRAIN works as a registered nurse. She lives with her fiancé in Connecticut, where she enjoys outdoor activities including endurance races, hiking, dirt biking, and camping. This is her first book. LISA PULITZER is a former correspondent forThe New York Times.She is the author and co-author of more than a dozen non-fiction books, including the bestsellingStolen Innocence.

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"In gripping detail, [Drain] reflects on her fall from grace, how it opened her eyes and how she's built a new life filled with love, not hate. Three out of four stars."
People