JOY CASTRO
Saturday, November 5 at 5 p.m.

Joy Castro’s memoir, The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah’s Witnesses (Arcade), is a brave, luminous, beautifully written account of survival of years of emotional and physical abuse, brainwashing, and starvation at the hands of her stepfather. The powerlessness of family members, her religious community’s complicity with the abuse, and her eventual escape and coming to terms with these events is, in the hands of this writer, an exceptional story. "Out of a life wounded by brutality and hypocrisy, Joy Castro has made something straight and true." - Earl Shorris. "More than merely engaging, downright embracing." - Booklist.

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