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Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir

Dowd, Michelle

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Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1643755773
ISBN13: 9781643755779
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Feb 27 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A moving, heartbreaking, and lyrical true story of the author's escape from an apocalyptic cult--and the survival skills that led to her freedom.

As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was born into an ultra-religious cult, the Field, started in the 1930s by her grandfather, who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live five hundred years and ascend to the heavens when doomsday came. Comfort and care are sins, Michelle is told. As a result, she was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger, thirst, and cold; she learns to trust animals more than humans; and most importantly, she learns how to survive in the natural world.

At the Field, a young Michelle lives a life of abuse, poverty, and isolation as she obeys her family's rigorous religious and patriarchal rules. But as Michelle gets older, she realizes she has the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain you, she tells herself. Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land, like the intricacies of your body. And so she does.

Using stories of individual edible plants and their uses to anchor each chapter, Forager is both a searing coming-of-age story and a meditation on the ways in which understanding nature can lead to freedom, even joy.

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