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Jesus land : a memoir / Julia Scheeres ; with a new preface by the author.

by Scheeres, Julia.

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Counterpoint, 2019.

Scheeres, Julia -- Childhood and youth.

Escuela Caribe (Dominican Republic)

Escuela Caribe (Dominican Republic) -- Students -- Biography.

Education -- Dominican Republic.

9781640092167 (pbk.)

373 p. ; 21 cm.

The heartland -- Friends & neighbors -- Education -- Home -- Body parts -- Virginity -- Sharp objects -- Freedom -- The island -- The program -- Dead babies -- New girl -- Pro-gress -- Rapture -- Agua de coco -- The pastor -- Turkey -- Florida.

"Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen-years-old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s and their family has just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees, trailer parks, and an all-encompassing racism. At home are a distant mother--more involved with her church's missionaries than her own children--and a violent father. In this riveting and heartrending memoir Julia Scheeres takes us from the Midwest to a place beyond imagining: surrounded by natural beauty, the Escuela Caribe--a religious reform school in the Dominican Republic--is characterized by a disciplinary regime that extracts repentance from its students by any means necessary. Julia and David strive to make it through these ordeals and their tale is relayed here with startling immediacy, extreme candor, and wry humor."--From publisher.

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