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I've read a few cult memoirs but never one on Children of God (aka The Family). This is a cult that engaged in sexual abuse on children and women - so the stories, while not detailed, are hard to take in. Jones' story of survival and finding her way is remarkable in the vain of Tara Westover's Educated (but not as poetically written).

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The least profound book on the CoG I have come across. I liked the intro first 1/3 of the book, the bit Faith lists as skippable history so you can jump right to her personal story, which I totally did not finish as I got an insincere vibe ( disingenuous maybe, not outright lies )

Highly recommend “Not Without my Sister” and the BBC documentary and the Amazon show extreme beliefs. Might return to this one day to try and finish.
I just couldn’t connect to Faith, while I pitied her childhood, she seemed to cherry pick what she was revealing