A review by bunrab
Coming of Age at the End of Days by Alice LaPlante

4.0

Part of my wanderings through the new books shelves at the library, which is when I grab stuff that isn't science fiction or murder mysteries, as well as the latest in those genres. A few of the blurbs I'd seen about this book were misleading - they described it as "a girl who grows up in a doomsday cult" but in fact, she joins the cult as a mid-teen, on her own, much to the bewilderment of her fairly normal, slightly dysfunctional, family. Big plot twists, not what I expected.

If you want to pair it with something completely different yet with important common elements, read "The Yiddish Policemens Union."