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The Truth Book: A Memoir

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Adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah’s Witness circle of relatives, Joy Castro is repeatedly reminded to tell the truth it doesn’t matter what the consequences. However, Castro finds this tenet to be essentially the most violated. Here, in her very own Truth Book, Castro bears witness to a childhood lost but a life regained.

Castro’s parents divorce after her father is excommunicated for smoking. She is twelve when her mother marries a “brother” within the church who, though exhibiting an impeccable public persona, is violent and controlling at home. For two years, Joy does not grow at all; actually, she loses sixteen pounds in keeping with the physical, emotional, psychological, and sexual abuse she suffers at his hands. Her battered mother does nothing to give protection to her, nor does her church. She is sustained by humor, books, and her protective love for her younger brother until their daring escape. This courageous personal account looks freshly on the disturbing effects of religious hypocrisy and the resilience of the human spirit.
 

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