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Lädt ... I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringingvon Kyria Abrahams
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Abrahams describes growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, and predictably for a memoir, leaving the organization as a young adult. Her style is witty and funny, while her descriptions of her unhappy family and the effects of religious restrictions combined with undiagnosed OCD on her personality are poignant. I was somewhat disappointed that while Abrahams seems to imply that her childhood reliance on the Jehovah's Witnesses was unhealthy, she is unable or unwilling to critique her own later dependence on alcohol and self-cutting as equally or more destructive and pointless. Despite the often charming wit, the narrator's inability to move far beyond her original adolescent perspective is unintentionally depressing. The first 100 pages or so are the most interesting, in my opinion. They cover her childhood as a Jehovah's Witness. After that, the memoir is more just about her making really bad decisions involving drugs, alcohol, cutting and getting away with be a drain on society. She doesn't really appear to go through any growth as a person (at least, not that she conveyed) and the last half of the book felt sloppy, disorganized and had some big gaps in the stories. The best part of the book is where she's talking about her disdain for a slam poet by the name of "Trevor Bali" who's an English teacher. The real name of this guy is Taylor Mali and I have loved his work since the first time I heard it 6 years ago. ;) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Raised as a Jehovah's Witness, Kyria Abrahams's childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her neighbors and schoolmates were doomed to die in an imminent fiery catastrophe; that Smurfs were evil; that just about anything you could buy at a yard sale was infested by demons; and that Ouija boards--even if they were manufactured by Parker Brothers--were portals to hell. . When Kyria turned eighteen, she found herself married to a man she didn't love, with adultery her only way out. "Disfellowshipped" and exiled from the only world she'd ever known, Kyria realized that the only people who could save her were the very sinners she had prayed would be smitten by God's wrath. Written with scorching wit and deep compassion, I'm Perfect, You're Doomed manages to be hilarious about the ironic absurdity of growing up believing that nothing matters because everything's about to be destroyed.. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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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. ( )