Jesus land
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Julia Scheeres
Publisher: MJF Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781567314083
Subjects: Race relations; Students; Racism; Escuela Caribe (Dominican Republic); Christian education; Problem children; Fundamentalism; Education; Childhood and youth; Biography; Christian youth
Description: It's the mid-1980s. Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David are sixteen years old and have just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees and trailer parks, and a racism neither of them is prepared for. While Julia is white, her close relationship with David, who is black, makes them both outcasts. At home, a distant mother, more involved with her church's missionaries than with her own children, and a violent father only compound their problems. When high-school hormones, bullying, and a deep-seated restlessness prove too much to bear, they are packed off to a Christian boot camp in the Dominican Republic. Surrounded by natural beauty, the Escuela Caribe is governed by a disciplinary regime that demands its teens repent for their sins, which few of them are aware they've committed. How they made it through with heart and soul intact is told here with candor and humor.--From publisher description.
Notes: "This edition is published by MJF Books in arrangement with Counterpoint Press."--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. In God we trust: The heartland; title: Friends & neighbors; title: Education; title: Home; title: Body parts; title: Virginity; title: Sharp objects; title: Freedom ; Part 2. Trust no one: The island; title: The program; title: Dead babies; title: New girl; title: Pro-gress; title: Rapture; title: Agua de coco; title: The pastor; title: Turkey; title: Florida ; Epilogue ; Acknowledgments ; An interview with Julia Scheeres.