World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult | 
"Behind me I hear people say hello to our parents extra loudly, which I know frustrates our father to no end. Once, when he and I were at Rexall Drugstore and the clerk shouted the cost of our Almond Joys, Band-Aids, and Listerine, my father cracked, "Maybe you should repeat that, because I *still* can't see.""
"[My brother] Bubba and I played with Paul that whole afternoon and later made an assessment of his character. He's nice, we said. We said he's fun. We said it's a shame he wasn't chosen. In two years, we said, he'll be dead, just like our baby brother."
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pickA fascinating look at religion, race, and growing-up in 1970s Chicago.
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pickWhat a strange childhood Walker had. Both parents were blind. And as members of a doomsday church, he spells out the kids' confusion--why go to school if the world ends in 6 months? Why don't I get to grow up? What can I do to save my friends from hell? The white supremacist vision of the church/cult is barely mentioned. He grew up poor, as so much of their money went to the church to fund "spreading the word"--supporting the leaders' lifestyle.
pickFascinating, heartbreaking, and eye-opening as Walker recounts growing up with blind parents who were cult members (doomsday cult practiced segregation) not with anger/regret but rather places you there with him while explaining how these major events in his childhood occurred. (Sept 6)
While goat-dog and iguana have a stare down I'm starting a memoir releasing in Sept. about growing up black in a doomsday white supremacist cult.
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