Uncultured
A Memoir
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Daniella Mestyanek Young
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"It’s a dark story that forced me to think more expansively about what constitutes a cult." —The New York Times' Ernesto Londoño
"Although this is Mestyanek Young’s first time narrating, listeners will appreciate hearing this deeply personal story told by the author herself. Share with fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox. Memoir readers will want to check this one out." —Library Journal
"A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn’t always think she’d live to tell her story." —The New York Times
This program is read by the author.
In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome.
Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family’s first communes in Texas. Her mother, at thirteen, was forced to marry the leader and served as his secretary for many years. Beholden to The Family’s strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse—masked as godly discipline and divine love—and is forbidden from getting a traditional education.
At fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. There, she bravely enrolls herself in high school and excels, later graduating as valedictorian of her college class, then electing to join the military to begin a career as an intelligence officer, where she believes she will finally belong.
But she soon learns that her new world—surrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan—looks remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind.
Told in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured explores the dangers unleashed when harmful group mentality goes unrecognized, and is emblematic of the many ways women have to contort themselves to survive.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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"A tremendous story of grit and determination." —Julia Scheeres, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Land
"Mestyanek Young searingly captures the fear and intensity that were her constant companions in the Children of God, and she draws smart parallels between the dogmatic 'indoctrination' she encountered in both the cult and the Army . . . Readers won’t be able to put down this harrowing and enthralling memoir." —Publishers Weekly (starred)
"Daniella Mestyanek Young’s searing memoir elegantly and intricately intertwines the worlds of religious cult and military, brilliantly displaying their similarities in a way that is as undeniable as it is disturbing. It is a brutal, necessary look at the inherent ways institutions attempt to confine women to limiting roles. Ultimately, it’s a story of resilience and Mestyanek Young’s ability to place one boot in front of the other in the face of the unimaginable." —Ryan Leigh Dostie, author of Formation and US Army veteran
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- Amazon Kunde
- 13.12.2024
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I have no words how deeply this book touched me! How incredibly strong a woman can grow after being vulnerable, that's strong for me and this book made me help through my own path right now! Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏🫶
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- nine
- 16.05.2024
Highly Recommend - Beware All the Trigger Warnings
As someone who usually avoids any kind book about or featuring cults or the military - because they make me very very uncomfortable - I would not normally have picked this up, but I came across the author's TicToc videos and here we are. This book is certainly no beach read. Definitely approach with caution because all of the trigger warnings! Also it might induce some rage.
I have so many questions: How could the god damn US not manage/find the will to shut down this cult?! How are certain people not currently in prison?! But also what kind of planet are white cis men living on?! Just this one quote from the latter part of the book from one of the good guys: "This may be the worst thing you've been through in your life." ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! How infantilizing is this statement?! Or are white cis men just so privileged that this would be the worst thing to ever happen to them?! Almost all cis white European civilian women I know have been through multiple worse things than what he is referring to there! Can you imagine how this would look for women who are non-white, non-European/North American, queer and/or disabled.
Anyway, highly recommend this book. Read it - if you can stomach all the triggers.
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- Dahlily
- 07.02.2024
Absolute page turner, and beautiful memoir
Couldn't put this down, it was so interesting and well written. This should have way more reviews and listens!
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- Naomi Dasen
- 21.08.2023
Emotional rollercoaster - great great biography
such a great audiobook - i loved that the author read it herself, it really deepened the emotional story. it was emotional - somewhere between tearing up every chapter and cheering her on in between, koy for her wins and empathy for her losses. greatly written, honest and just overall a wonderful book, that doesn‘t lose optimism despite the background.
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