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100 1  Scorah, Amber,|eauthor. 
245 10 Leaving the witness :|bexiting a religion and finding a 
       life /|cAmber Scorah. 
246 30 Leaving the Jehovah's Witness   
264  1 New York :|bViking,|c2019. 
300    279 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (page 279). 
520    A first book by the creator of the "Dear Amber" podcast 
       describes her strict upbringing as a third-generation 
       Jehovah's Witness and her efforts to find her true place 
       in the world apart from the edicts of her family and 
       faith. 
520    A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Scorah had devoted 
       her life to sounding God's warning of impending 
       Armageddon. She took the message to China, where immersion
       in a foreign language and culture turned her world upside 
       down, and eventually led her to lose all that she had been
       sure was true. Beginning to understand that there were 
       other ways of seeing the world, her loss of faith 
       culminated in her own personal apocalypse. Shunned by 
       family and friends as an apostate, Scorah was thrown into 
       a world she had only known from the periphery. Here she 
       examines what it's like to start one's life over again 
       with an entirely new identity, trying to find meaning in 
       the absence of religion.-- adapted from jacket 
600 10 Scorah, Amber. 
650  0 Jehovah's Witnesses|xMissions|zChina. 
650  0 Ex-church members|xJehovah's Witnesses|vBiography. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious.|2bisacsh  
650  7 RELIGION / Christianity / Jehovah's Witnesses.|2bisacsh  
650  7 RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions.|2bisacsh  
651  7 China.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01206073 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919894   
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft   
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