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Child X : a memoir of slavery, poverty, celebrity, and Scientology / Jamie Mustard.

Van Pelt Library BP605.S2 M87 2025
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mustard, Jamie, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mustard, Jamie.
Scientologists--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
Scientologists.
Ex-church members--Scientology--Biography.
Ex-church members.
Child abuse--Religious aspects.
Child abuse.
Scientology--Controversial literature.
Scientology.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
xx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc, [2025]
Summary:
"Jamie Mustard was born into one of the most influential fringe movements in the 1970s: Scientology. Raised on a mythology of spaceships and made to believe that it was his life's purpose to help save the world, he was determined to survive - not only neglect but also the physical and psychological gauntlets of extreme poverty and illiteracy. A dark, existential journey, Child X takes readers through Jamie's childhood and adolescence in "the movement," his escape, and his rise into self-possession. This book tells the unfathomable story of a lost generation of children, who endured mass psychological indoctrination and captivity"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The baby factory
Nightmare dive bombers
Greenwich Village
Phoenix rising
Angels
The invasion
Black fighters
The belly of two beasts
Archives of Zanzibar
Starboys
Children of the revolution
Oregon
Return to the jungle
The crumbling
Asylum
Fortress
West Sussex
The escape
New York
Georgetown
London
Vallauris.
ISBN:
9781637747087
163774708X
OCLC:
1512070994

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