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03134aam a22004218i 4500 001 7B586336B1B511EDA9C6D5341FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230221010051 008 221017s2023 meu d 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022047480 020 $a 9798885786904 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 10 $a BP605.C38 $b Y68 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20221205 100 1 $a Young, Daniella Mestyanek, $e author. 245 10 $a UNCULTURED : $b A MEMOIR [LARGE PRINT] / $c Daniella Mestyanele Young with Brandi Larsen. 250 $a Large print edition. 263 $a 2302 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 490 0 $a Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir 500 $a 2023/02/22 505 0 $a The Family -- The System -- The Army. 520 $a "In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family's first communesin Texas. Her mother, at thirteen, was forced to marry the leader and served as his secretary for many years. Beholden to The Family's strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse -- masked as godly discipline and divine love -- and is forbidden from getting a traditional education. At fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. There, she bravely enrolls herself in high school and excels, later graduating as valedictorian of her college class, then electing to join the military to begin a career as an intelligence officer, where she believes she will finally belong. But she soon learns that her new world -- surrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan -- looks remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind. Told in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured explores the dangers unleashed when harmful group mentality goes unrecognized, and is emblematic of the many ways women have to contort themselves to survive"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Young, Daniella Mestyanek. 650 0 $a Ex-cultists $z United States $v Biography. 610 20 $a Family International (Organization) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Children of God (Movement) $v Biography. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $v Biography. $9 76764 700 1 $a Larsen, Brandi, $e author. $9 228167 941 $a 5 945 $a lpt 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20230808011832.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20230602011532.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230502010756.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20230302011822.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230221010301.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B586336B1B511EDA9C6D5341FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search