![]() ![]() There, she bravely enrolls herself in high school and excels, later graduating as valedictorian of her college class, then electing to join the military to begin a career as an intelligence officer, where she believes she will finally belong.īut she soon learns that her new world -surrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan -looks remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind. Beholden to The Family’s strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse -masked as godly discipline and divine love -and is forbidden from getting a traditional education.Īt fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. Her mother, at thirteen, was forced to marry the leader and served as his secretary for many years. Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family’s first communes in Texas. ![]() In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome.īehind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. ![]()
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