LOUIS THEROUX: 'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated,
Unfollow is an essential text' PANDORA SYKES: 'Such a moving,
redemptive, clear-eyed account of religious indoctrination' NICK
HORNBY: 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an
unexpected redemption' DOLLY ALDERTON: 'A modern-day parable for
how we should speak and listen to each other' JON RONSON: 'Her
journey - from Westboro to becoming one of the most empathetic,
thoughtful, humanistic writers around - is exceptional and
inspiring' An Amazon Best Book of 2019 As featured on the BBC
documentaries, 'The Most Hated Family in America' and 'Surviving
America's Most Hated Family' It was an upbringing in many ways
normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by
devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a
revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world
of extreme discipline, of siblings vanishing in the night. Megan
Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the
fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic
and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and
notorious for its picketing the funerals of American soldiers. From
her first public protest, aged five, to her instrumental role in
spreading the church's invective via social media, her formative
years brought their difficulties. But being reviled was not one of
them. She was preaching God's truth. She was, in her words, 'all
in'. In November 2012, at the age of twenty-six, she left the
church, her family, and her life behind. Unfollow is a story about
the rarest thing of all: a person changing their mind. It is a
fascinating insight into a closed world of extreme belief, a
biography of a complex family, and a hope-inspiring memoir of a
young woman finding the courage to find compassion for others, as
well as herself. --- 'A gripping story, beautifully told . . . It
takes real talent to produce a book like this. Its message could
not be more urgent' Sunday Times 'Hate's kryptonite' Washington
Examiner 'An exceptional book' The Times 'A nuanced portrait of the
lure and pain of zealotry' New York Times 'Unfolds like a suspense
novel . . . A brave, unsettling, and fascinating memoir about the
damage done by religious fundamentalism' NPR
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