Jesus Land A Memoir.

New York Times Bestseller: A memoir that "will break your heart and mend it again, but it won't stop haunting you" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen years old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s and their family has just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees, trailer parks, and an all-encompassing racism. At home are a distant mother-more involved with her chur...