A review by evamadera1
The Wrong Way Home by Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.5

This book was powerful and incredibly unexpected. (A little bit of that comes from the fact that I do not read the synopses of the books I am reading for this professional development project prior to reading the book.) This book opens with the main character and her mom escaping from what the readers - but not the main character - can see is a high control cult. The main character cannot understand why her mom would do this and desperately wants to return to the only thing that she has known as home. O'Shaughnessy does such a careful job leading the character to see all the troubling signs while also showing the reader both the danger of these sorts of groups as well as the consequences of this sort of brainwashing - how difficult it can be at any age to retrain your brain. This is an excellent read.