Forager
Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir
by Michelle Dowd
A moving, heartbreaking, and lyrical true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—and the survival skills that led to her freedom.
“This is a searing, soaring coming-of-age story that unfolds under the most unconventional of circumstances...Forager is a true testimony both to the resourceful child Michelle Dowd was and to the extraordinary woman she became.”
About Michelle Dowd
Michelle Dowd is a journalism professor and contributor to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, TIME magazine, Alpinist, and other national publications. Her popular Modern Love column in The New York Times inspired her memoir, Forager: Field Notes on Surviving a Family Cult, which showcases her life growing up on an isolated mountain in California as part of an apocalyptic cult, and how she found her way out of poverty and illness by drawing on the gifts of the wilderness.
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