02143nam a2200325u 4500 232979165 OCoLC 20250618155027.0 ta 110224s2009 nyu 000 0aeng d 2008041136 9781416556848 (hardcover) 25.00 1416556842 (hardcover) 37266044 (OCoLC)232979165 DLC DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP WZW AJM n-us--- WZWW BX8527.A27 A3 2009 289.9/2092 B 22 Abrahams, Kyria. 20201 I'm perfect, you're doomed : tales from a Jehovah's witness upbringing / Kyria Abrahams. 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009. xi, 339 p. ; 24 cm. "I'm Perfect, You're Doomed" is the story of Kyria Abrahams's coming-of-age as a Jehovah's Witness--a doorbell-ringing "Pioneer of the Lord." Her childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her neighbors and schoolmates where doomed to die in an imminent fiery apocalypse; that Smurfs were evil; that just about anything you could buy at a yard sale was infested by demons; and that Ouija boards--even if they were manufactured by Parker Brothers--were portals to hell. Never mind how popular you are when you hand out the Watchtower instead of candy at Halloween. When Abrahams turned eighteen, things got even stranger. That's when she found herself married to a man she didn't love, with adultery her only way out. "Disfellowshipped" and exiled from the only world she'd ever known, Abrahams realized that the only people who could save her were the very sinners she had prayed would be smitten by God's wrath. Raucously funny, deeply unsettling, and written with scorching wit and deep compassion, I'm Perfect, You're Doomed explores the ironic absurdity of growing up believing that nothing matters because everything's about to be destroyed Provided by the publisher. Abrahams, Kyria. 20201 Jehovah's Witnesses United States Biography. 20202 ddc BOOK 2591 2591 0 0 ABELJ abelj B 2016-10-26 1 2 B ABRA 18522 2019-03-01 2017-01-06 25.00 2016-10-26 BOOK