A review by sarahkorn
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.0

I knew the gist of what happened at Jonestown but it was remarkable (and incredibly sad) to read the People's Temple's chronological history in vivid detail.

Scheeres has a very compassionate take that these were just people so hurt by society seeking a more just world, which I can now see, and which makes the story of Jonestown even more tragic.