A review by cayv97
Wholly Unraveled: A Memoir by Keele Burgin

5.0

This memoir centers on Kathleen Flanagan, a girl growing up in a very specific religious family. Her father is a leader of a group (Disciples of Light) that invokes strict guidelines and rules for everyone, especially women. It moves through Kathleen’s childhood of being physically, emotionally, and spiritually abused at the hands of her father as her mother stays silent. After a sexual assault in her teen years and a traumatic injury on horseback, Kathleen begins to unravel. It moves through her lost years as she escaped from her family and tried to find solace in drugs, alcohol, and broken people. At her lowest point, she enters a religious retreat to try to repair herself.
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