Apocalypse Child: Surviving Doomsday and the Search for Identity at the End of the World - Couverture souple

Butler, Carly

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1773861328 ISBN 13 : 9781773861326

Editeur : Caitlin Press, 2024

Synopsis

Carly Butler was a lively, imaginative child being raised by her strong and independent mom, DJ, in 1990s Montana. They were a dynamic duo, working on housing projects and bringing music to the local church. Then, a whisper of a threatened future began to grow louder: Y2K was coming. Believing every conspiracy theory and Evangelical Christian prediction they encountered to be true, DJ and a young, impressionable Carly set out on a lonely path. Taught to prepare for the worst and to fear her girlhood dreams as warnings from God, Carly and her mother flee to the Canadian wilderness, leaving behind Barbies and Nintendo for chopping wood and shooting empty bottles for target practice. They connected with other Evangelical Christians preparing for doomsday, but were often stranded alone, without electricity, for weeks at a time as the winter―and the apocalypse―approached. But what happens when the world doesn't end, after all? Apocalypse Child is a startling memoir about growing up in a tumultuous home, coming of age in isolation, and trying to figure out how to connect as an adult when your education has consisted of conspiracy theories, survivalist measures, and religious doctrine. From doomsday preparation and ideologies of purity and paranoia to motherhood and explorations of a burgeoning queer, Mexican-Indigenous identity, Carly Butler takes us on a gripping journey of resilience, self-discovery, and searching for community.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carly Butler is a bisexual Indigenous woman with ancestral roots in Mexico. She spent the first ten years of her life in the US, and was brought to Canada illegally in 1998. She has been a babysitter, a house cleaner, a barista and a birth doula, and now she is a stay-at-home-disability-mom and author. Her writing has appeared in Loose Lips Magazine. She lives with her husband and two children in Langley, BC. Apocalypse Child is her first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Caitlin Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1773861328
• ISBN 13: 9781773861326
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
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• Personne responsable: non disponible