Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir

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A moving, heartbreaking, and lyrical true story of the authors escape from an apocalyptic cultand the survival skills that led to her freedom.My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was born into an ultrareligious cultor the Field as they called itstarted in the 1930s by her grandfather, a mercurial, domineering, and charismatic man who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live 500 years and ascend to the heavens when doomsday came. Comfort and care are sins, Michelle is told. As a result, she was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger, thirst, and cold; she learned to trust animals more than humans; and most importantly, she learned how to survive in the natural world.At the Field, a young Michelle lives a life of abuse, poverty, and isolation, as she obeys her familys rigorous religious and patriarchal ruleswhich are so extreme that Michelle is convinced her mother would sacrifice her, like Abraham and Isaac, if instructed by God. She often wears the same clothes for months at a time; she is often ill and always hungry for both love and food. She is taught not to trust Outsiders, and especially not Quitters, nor her own body and its warnings.But as Michelle gets older, she realizes she has the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain, not satiate you, she tells herself. Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land, like the intricacies of your body. And so she does.Using stories of individual edible plants and their uses to anchor each chapter, Forager is both a searing comingofage story and a meditation on the ways in which understanding nature can lead to freedom, even joy.

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