Kyria Abrahams
Autor de I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
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It's pretty impressive how this naive young woman, once she finds being married at 19 isn't all it's cracked up to be, engages in increasingly risky behaviors but manages to come out the other side, with quite a bit of help from some very understanding and patient people, relatively unscathed - that is not raped, pregnant, an addict or worse. It's very sad how insular some "churches" have to be in order to keep their parishioners snowed by the ridiculously and obviously non-factual crap they are peddling. Those who manage to make it out, like Kyria, are so unprepared for life in the real world, that often they tuck tail and head back to the church just to have friends or a roof over their heads. Kyria was quite lucky to be rescued and cared for instead of taken advantage of by her liberators; the story could have gone a much darker direction, and probably has for some escapees of this dangerous "faith."
I just wish she hadn't come off as such a brat; I might have enjoyed her story more.… (más)