Here’s another “really messed up childhood” memoir, with a big focus on how the author reclaimed her own identity in a commune as a young adult. “Other memories came camouflaged, and I couldn’t see through to the middle. But I could feel their weight; it was my worthlessness.” Raised by the leader of a Christian cult, Burgin spent her childhood strictly abiding by her rather terrifying father’s rules. This is a man who punished her with physical violence for wearing a pair of red Gloria […]