02253cam a2200361 i 4500 607973188 TxGeo 20221024120000.0 201212s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020052793 9781635579345 trade pbk. 1635579341 trade pbk. TxGeo rda Rodenberg, Shawna Kay. Kin : a memoir / Shawna Kay Rodenberg. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. xix, 330 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people, from Rona Jaffe Writer's Award winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg. When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father, fresh from a ruinous tour in Vietnam, spirited her family from their home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to Minnesota, renouncing all of their earthly possessions to live in the Body, an off-the-grid End Times religious community. Her father was seeking a better, safer life for his family, but the austere communal living of prayer, bible study and strict regimentation was a bad fit for the precocious Shawna. Disciplined harshly for her many infractions, she was sexually abused by a predatory adult member of the community. Soon after the leader of the Body died and revelations of the sexual abuse came to light, her family returned to the same Kentucky mountains that their ancestors have called home for three hundred years. It is a community ravaged by the coal industry, but for all that, rich in humanity, beauty, and the complex knots of family love..."-- Provided by publisher. Adult Brodart. 20221102. Rodenberg, Shawna Kay. Move (Christian sect.) Appalachians (People) Kentucky Biography. Women Kentucky Biography. Women authors, American Biography. Ex-cultists United States Biography. Kentucky Biography. Biographies. QS5