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02265aam a2200325 i 4500 001 1F8CF75ED2F311EAA8F09B4C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200731010020 008 181028s2019 cau 000 0deng c 010 $a 2018051329 020 $a 1640092161 : PAP 020 $a 9781640092167 : PAP 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $c LBSOR $e rda $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a LE17.D65 $b S34 2019 082 00 $a 373.7293 $2 23 100 1 $a Scheeres, Julia, $e author. 245 10 $a Jesus land : $b a memoir / $c Julia Scheeres ; with a new preface by the author. 264 1 $a Berkeley, California : $b Counterpoint, $c [2019] 300 $a xiii, 373 pages ; $c 21 cm 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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 area 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Escuela Caribe (Dominican Republic) 600 10 $a Scheeres, Julia $x Childhood and youth. 610 20 $a Escuela Caribe (Dominican Republic) $x Students $v Biography. 650 0 $a Problem children $x Education $z Dominican Republic. 650 0 $a Christian education $z Dominican Republic. 941 $a 2 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20240626020333.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20231021032022.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1F8CF75ED2F311EAA8F09B4C97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search