{"product_id":"uncultured-a-memoir","title":"Uncultured: A Memoir","description":"\"A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn’t always think she’d live to tell her story.\" ―The New York Times\n\nA Buzzfeed Best Book of September\n\nIn the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome.\n\nBehind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family’s first communes in Texas. Her mother, at thirteen, was forced to marry the leader and served as his secretary for many years. Beholden to The Family’s strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse―masked as godly discipline and divine love―and is forbidden from getting a traditional education.\n\nAt fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. There, she bravely enrolls herself in high school and excels, later graduating as valedictorian of her college class, then electing to join the military to begin a career as an intelligence officer, where she believes she will finally belong.\n\nBut she soon learns that her new world―surrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan―looks remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind.\n\nTold in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured explores the dangers unleashed when harmful group mentality goes unrecognized, and is emblematic of the many ways women have to contort themselves to survive.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250280117\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1250280117.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Young, Daniella Mestyanek\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41509434982458,"sku":"DBV.1250280117.G","price":20.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1250280117-0.jpg?v=1783403672","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/uncultured-a-memoir","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}