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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Michelle DowdPublish date:2023-03-07Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781643751856ISBN-10:1643751859UPC:9781643751856Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Survival, ReligiousSize:8.50 x 5.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCFBBZYTG1
A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author's escape from an apocalyptic cult--and the deep understanding of the natural world that helped her find freedom.

My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.

Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest, born into an ultra-religious cult--the Field, as members called it--run by her grandfather, who believed that his chosen followers must prepare themselves to survive doomsday. Bound by the group's patriarchal rules and literal interpretation of the Bible, Michelle and her siblings lived a life of deprivation, isolated from Outsiders and starved for both love and food. She was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger, thirst, and cold; she learned to trust animals more than humans; and most important, she learned how to survive by foraging for what she needed. And as Michelle got older, she realized she had the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain, not satiate you, she would tell herself. Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land like the intricacies of your body. And so she did.

With haunting and stark language, and illustrations of edible plants and their uses opening each chapter, Forager is a fierce and empowering coming-of-age story and a timely meditation on the ways in which harnessing nature's gifts can lead to our freedom.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781643751856ISBN-10:1643751859UPC:9781643751856Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Survival, ReligiousSize:8.50 x 5.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCFBBZYTG1
Michelle Dowd is a professor of journalism and contributor to the New York Times, Alpinist, The Los Angeles Book Review, Catapult, OnlySky, and other national publications. She founded The Chaffey Review, an award-winning literary journal, advises student media, teaches poetry and critical thinking in the California State prisons and has been recognized as a Longreads Top 5 for The Thing with Feathers, on the relationship between environmentalism and hope. She guides yoga and meditation workshops throughout southern California, where she hikes the peaks with her four dogs.


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