"When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father ... 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 ... 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 ... Kin is a ... memoir of survival that seeks to understand and make peace with the people and places that were survived"-- Provided by publisher.
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