num_pages: 348
description: At the tender ages of only three and five sisters Amory and Riley are abandoned by their mother at the Church of Scientology in Hollywood California. For sixteen long years Amory does what shes told following Church rules and regulations about every aspect of her life. Yet while working in the Sea Orgthe Churchs administrative organization comprised of the most dedicated membersAmory experiences for the first time a stirring yearning for freedom unlike anything shes ever known. When Riley admits that shes pregnant Amory knows she must do something and swallows a handful of pills in a desperate attempt to escape. When she wakes up the Church places her in a strict ethics rehabilitation program that isolates her from family and friends. As Amory becomes more convinced of her need to leave the Church she struggles to disconnect from those around her and free herself from the ties that hold her to the only home she has. Will Amory find the courage she needs to escape the manipulation and controlling demands of the only world shes ever known? Based on true-life events Blown represents the first novel depicting life inside the repressive confines of the Church of Scientology.
language: English
title: Blown
publisher: lhbbooks