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Jesus Land

  • 384 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2005
  • 12 editions

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1 About this book

"Sibling bond is at the core of Jesus Land, Scheeres’s gritty, heart-wrenching memoir...A lesser writer would have buckled under the weight of this story...A page turner...Heart-stopping and enraging...There is much praise, these days, for the detached, quietly elegant narrative. But there is little mention of the power a well-tended rage can bring to a good story...Focused, justified and without a trace of self-pity. Shot through with poignancy."

  • Biography & autobiography
  • Biography
  • Memoir
  • Racism
  • United states, race relations
  • Students
  • Education
  • Childhood and youth

2 About Julia Scheeres

Born 1967

Julia Scheeres is an American journalist and nonfiction author. Born in Lafayette, Indiana, Scheeres received a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a master's in journalism from the University of Southern California. Now living and working in San Francisco, California, she has been a contributor to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired News, and LA Weekly.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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