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Author Rodenberg, Shawna Kay, author.

Title Kin : a memoir / Shawna Kay Rodenberg.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  B RODENBERG    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY RODENBERG    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. RODENBERG, S.    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B RODENBER    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY RODENBERG    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B RODENBERG S.    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  B RODENBERG, SHAWNA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO RODENBERG    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B RODENBERG    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 RODENBERG, SHA    Check Shelf

Description xix, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Treasures upon Earth -- Deborah Kay -- Sex & black magic -- Rose of Sharon -- Chicken pox and army worms -- Aunt Hope -- He is faithful to forgive us -- The doghouse -- Shorty in the turning place -- Fletcher Hill -- Aunt Ruby -- The first end times -- Yellowjackets -- Deliverance -- More end times -- A bimbo my whole life -- A new colossus -- The end of the end times and the beginning -- Shotgun wedding.
Summary "A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people, from Rona Jaffe Writer's Award winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg. When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father, fresh from a ruinous tour in Vietnam, spirited her family from their home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to Minnesota, renouncing all of their earthly possessions to live in the Body, an off-the-grid End Times religious community. Her father was seeking a better, safer life for his family, but the austere communal living of prayer, bible study and strict regimentation was a bad fit for the precocious Shawna. Disciplined harshly for her many infractions, she was sexually abused by a predatory adult member of the community. Soon after the leader of the Body died and revelations of the sexual abuse came to light, her family returned to the same Kentucky mountains that their ancestors have called home for three hundred years. It is a community ravaged by the coal industry, but for all that, rich in humanity, beauty, and the complex knots of family love. Curious, resourceful, rebellious, Shawna will ultimately leave her mountain home but only as she masters a perilous balancing act between who she has been and who she will become. Kin is a mesmerizing memoir of survival that seeks to understand and make peace with the people and places that were survived. It is above all about family-about the forgiveness and love within its bounds-and generations of Appalachians who have endured, harmed, and held each other through countless lifetimes of personal and regional tragedy"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Rodenberg, Shawna Kay.
Move (Christian sect)
Appalachians (People) -- Kentucky -- Biography.
Women -- Kentucky -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Ex-cultists -- United States -- Biography.
Kentucky -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Appalachians (People) (OCoLC)fst00811516
Ex-cultists. (OCoLC)fst00917444
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Women authors, American. (OCoLC)fst01177210
Kentucky. (OCoLC)fst01204494
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Rodenberg, Shawna Kay. Kin New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2021] 9781635574562 (DLC) 2020052794
ISBN 9781635574555 (hardcover)
1635574552 (hardcover)
9781635574562 (ebook)
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