Another from the Real Simple recommendations list (yes, each month I look at the "what we're reading" section in Real Simple magazine and usually pull one or more of the books they recommend into my "to read" list on my phone).
I started this on April 25 and finished it on April 30 - another quick read.
Real Simple said this:
"Lauren Hough has endured more than most of us in 10 lifetimes, and she reels it all... from her globe-trotting childhood in an infamous cult to her time in the U.S. Air Force to her eye-opening experiences as a bouncer and cable installer. Hough bravely and compellingly shares how our search for identity can be searingly awful, wickedly funny, and totally worth it."
I'm not a cult expert or even a cult novice. I know next to nothing about them let alone how to leave them. This book was really interesting. It's presented as a collection of essays, and that presented a few issues for me. Some of the content seemed repetitive and the book itself didn't follow a linear timeline. I guess because - essays. Different and the same topics can be part of more than one essay, and they were. The book still held my interest and had me shaking my head in disbelief in many of the essays. Thinking, "how could that happen?" and "holy shit" multiple times.
The glimpses Hough offers into her experiences in the cult and outside it show aspects of life that most of us haven't even thought about or imagined, let alone lived. That she's been through all of the travails and nightmares this life has brought her is a testament (maybe?) to the human spirit and about how much shit some can endure and still keep forging ahead.
Post written on May 3. Publication date reflects date I finished the book.
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