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Title: Harrowing account of adolescents
Review: I got this book for a buck at a used book store and have not been able to put it down. Scheeres' cool journalistic style adds to the brutality of the racism, sexism and arch hypocrisy that propel the plot and the narrative voice down a deep hole of psychological misery.It reminds me a lot of Scott Heim's "Mysterious Skin", another tale of lost childhood set in the heartland.If you read "Jesus Land", it will make most accounts of dysfunctional families and tortuous childhoods pale in comparison.
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