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Title: Hearbreakingly funny and vividly rendered memoir
Review: This book was written for the author's adopted black brother David, who stole her heart from the day her white parents brought him home, and the story it tells will steal your heart, too.Jesusland is about Julia and David's steadfast loyalty to and love for each other. Scheeres' writing is simultaneously funny and sad as she narrates the outrageous fortunes she and David suffered growing up in rural Indiana in a mixed race family. Blatant racism, shameful violence, and religious zealotry threatened to wedge them apart but never succeeded.Jesusland is a page-turner, the kind of book you can't put down because you come to care so deeply for the characters and the troubles they're having. I found myself rooting for David and Julia, and even when tragedy strikes, ultimately consoled by the saving grace of their love for each other.
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