Amity & Sorrow
Book description
AMITY & SORROW is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's THE LOVELY BONES meets WITNESS: an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come.
In the wake of…
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1 author picked Amity & Sorrow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
When this book first came out, telling the story of a woman and her teenage daughters fleeing across rural America in the wake of a suspicious fire at a fundamentalist cult, I knew I’d love it. Who isn’t intrigued by the idea of closed communities and coercive control–and escape?
Four long days into the women’s getaway, they crash the car, and the three of them – strange-looking and terrified–are stranded at a dusty gas station with nothing and no one to turn to. I loved how the writer gradually allows us to piece together the disturbing events of the preceding…
From Isabel's list on sinister sisters and strange sisterhoods.
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