I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness UpbringingSimon and Schuster, 3 mars 2009 - 352 pages I'm Perfect, You're Doomed is the story of Kyria Abrahams's coming-of-age as a Jehovah's Witness -- a doorbell-ringing "Pioneer of the Lord." Her childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her neighbors and schoolmates were doomed to die in an imminent fiery apocalypse; that Smurfs were evil; that just about anything you could buy at a yard sale was infested by demons; and that Ouija boards -- even if they were manufactured by Parker Brothers -- were portals to hell. Never mind how popular you are when you hand out the Watchtower instead of candy at Halloween. When Abrahams turned eighteen, things got even stranger. That's when she found herself married to a man she didn't love, with adultery her only way out. "Disfellowshipped" and exiled from the only world she'd ever known, Abrahams realized that the only people who could save her were the very sinners she had prayed would be smitten by God's wrath. Raucously funny, deeply unsettling, and written with scorching wit and deep compassion, I'm Perfect, You're Doomed explores the ironic absurdity of growing up believing that nothing matters because everything's about to be destroyed. |
Table des matières
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Section 2 | 36 |
Section 3 | 37 |
Section 4 | 51 |
Section 5 | 60 |
Section 6 | 61 |
Section 7 | 67 |
Section 8 | 79 |
Section 19 | 167 |
Section 20 | 183 |
Section 21 | 194 |
Section 22 | 208 |
Section 23 | 209 |
Section 24 | 226 |
Section 25 | 243 |
Section 26 | 253 |
Section 9 | 80 |
Section 10 | 89 |
Section 11 | 90 |
Section 12 | 100 |
Section 13 | 109 |
Section 14 | 121 |
Section 15 | 129 |
Section 16 | 130 |
Section 17 | 149 |
Section 18 | 156 |
Section 27 | 266 |
Section 28 | 274 |
Section 29 | 275 |
Section 30 | 291 |
Section 31 | 303 |
Section 32 | 317 |
Section 33 | 325 |
Section 34 | 331 |
Section 35 | 339 |
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