When the World Didn't End: A Memoir Turner Guinevere
When the World Didn't End: A Memoir Turner Guinevere In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family…
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When the World Didn't End: A Memoir Turner Guinevere
In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult--and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she'd ever knownOn January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. But the spaceship never came.Guinevere did not understand her family was a cult. Under strict instructions from her Family Leader, seven-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited for her salvation--a spaceship that would take her and her peers to live on Venus.
But there was a dark side to this bucolic existence: When selected girls in She spent most of her days on a compound in Kansas, living with dozens of other children who worked in the sorghum fields and roved freely through the surrounding pastures, eating mulberries and tending to farm animals.