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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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Book Description
A riveting and finely crafted true story, Losing the Way recounts how the daughter of East Coast intellectuals was recruited into a well-known rightwing Bible cult, The Way International, where she was manipulated, betrayed, and abused, before being rescued by the worldly mother she rejected. Skedgell shows how easily an idealistic young person can be swept away by a spiritual quest and the quiet malevolence lurking beneath the religious exterior of a false leader.
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How is it that a woman determined to be good -- virtuous -- can make such an unholy mess of her life? In pursuit of grace, Kristen Skedgell gave herself to one devil after another. She lost her way in life, but not on the page, and her account of finding her way back home, back to the self she denied and betrayed, has something to teach all of us.
Kathryn Harrison
Author of “The Kiss”
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