Synopsis
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(Content note: physical abuse, domestic violence) Heather grows up in an evangelical fundamentalist family that moves to Papua New Guinea as Christian missionaries. At nine years old, she and her brother are left in a boarding school dorm run by a volatile and abusive house father. After her faith collapses in college, she falls into a controlling marriage, watches her husband become similarly volatile and abusive toward their children, until she finally gets out.
Themes/Keywords:
boarding school, controlling relationship, divorce, domestic violence, evangelical Christianity, faith crisis, missionaries, motherhood, Papua New Guinea, religious deconstruction
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