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Apocalypse Child

A Life in End Times - a Memoir

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Apocalypse Child

By: Flor Edwards
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For the first 13 years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the Children of God. The group's nomadic existence was based on the belief that, as God's chosen people, they would be saved in the impending apocalypse that would envelop the rest of the world in 1993. Flor would be 13 years old. The group's charismatic leader, Father David, kept the family on the move, from Los Angeles to Bangkok to Chicago, where they would eventually disband, leaving Flor to make sense of the foreign world of mainstream society around her.

Apocalypse Child is a cathartic journey through Flor's memories of growing up within a group with unconventional views on education, religion, and sex. Whimsically referring to herself as a real-life Kimmy Schmidt, Edwards's clear-eyed memoir is a story of survival in a childhood lived on the fringes.

©2018 Flor Edwards (P)2018 Audible, Inc. Women
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Thank you Flor for writing this story, our story. A story so hard to explain to the outside unless you've been there as well.

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So well written and engaging, it’s a fascinating and heartbreaking true story about life as a child in the children of god cult

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