02977cim a2200409 i 4500 2533406937 TxAuBib 20190828120000.0 r 250812s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250870728 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 1250870720 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT16140365 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Young, Daniella Mestyanek, author. Uncultured [Hoopla] : A Memoir / Daniella Mestyanek Young. Unabridged. [United States : Macmillan Audio, 2022. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 50 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Daniella Mestyanek Young. 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 communes in 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. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Biography. Cults. Religion. Women Biography. Biographies. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14844762?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hhh711 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/mcm_9781250870728_180.jpeg Cover image RV8