num_pages: 399
description: The harrowing first-person account of one child's ordeals inside the isolated commune of an ultra-fundamentalist religious cult.It is 1973. Sila Caprin's mother is recruited into Sam Fife's Move of God; within the year Sila and her older siblings Leis and Jeremy along with all of the familys belongings are packed into the back of a U-Haul leaving California for their new home in Massachusetts. Eventually they will be taken deep into the harsh Alaskan tundra to live on a compound surrounded by miles of woods and monitored by armed men. With every detail of their lives minutely controlled by Sam Fife's violent teachings Sila endures physical mental and sexual abuse as she fights to maintain just a glimmer of her own humanity. Creative intuitive and smart young Sila vies for individuality in a culture where she is insignificant and unprotected  until the day her sister becomes a victim of an act so dreadful that its sadness becomes their savior. Poignant gripping and ultimately triumphant Vennie Kocsis Cult Child will leave you inspired by the pure strength of will that children use to cope themselves through trauma.
language: English
title: Cult Child
publisher: None