Devoted
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From the author of Moxie, soon to be a major Netflix production
An empowering, feminist coming-of-age story about self-discovery, from the author of MOXIE - a Zoella Book Club book ...
Rachel Walker's family and community have turned away from the world.
Every part of Rachel's life is controlled, from what she reads to where she goes and what she wears. Her parents dictate how her life must be: marriage, modesty, children and obedience to her future husband. But when a former member of her community, a girl who escaped, moves back to her small Texas town, Rachel's world turns upside down.
She realises that her life is her own. But can she find the courage to fight for it?
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Rachel, the second sister of 10 children, attends Calvary Christian Church in Clayton, Tex. When she's not at church, she cares for her younger siblings and household, "learning how to be a wife and mother; a helpmeet with a cheerful countenance." Unlike her older sister, Faith, 17-year-old Rachel struggles to accept this apparently inevitable future: her father makes her destroy A Wrinkle in Time, a book that he says dishonors the Lord, and Faith corrects her for unintentionally defying "biblical femininity." Employing first-person, present-tense narration, Mathieu (The Truth About Alice) draws readers close to the drama raging in Rachel's mind, while she performs repetitive, stifling tasks. When her parents discover her most brazen sin, defying her father's order to avoid "those who have left the flock," they present Rachel with a choice: attend a camp she fears will brainwash her or leave home. This exploration of life within and removed from a fundamentalist community makes for riveting reading, all the more poignant for the sympathetic characters in both worlds. Ages 12 up.
