TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dowd,Michelle
AU  - Brand,Susan
TI  - Forager: field notes for surviving a family cult 
SN  - 9781643751856
U1  - 299/.93092B 23/eng/20221118
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PB  - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
KW  - Dowd, Michelle,
KW  - Christian sects
KW  - California
KW  - Biography
KW  - Adult child abuse victims
KW  - United States
KW  - Ex-cultists
KW  - Wilderness survival
KW  - Angeles National Forest (Calif.)
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "A memoir" -- Cover
N2  - "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." -- inside front jacket flap; "A memoir of the author's experience growing up in an apocalyptic cult, with an emphasis on how understanding the natural world was her key to escape and survival"--
ER  -