Mormon author describing her childhood in Idaho with an "end of the world is coming" father. No schooling. The Feds are satanic. Guns and stored food.
Notable scenes: Father has daughter help him with his junkyard work and nearly kills her. Piece of metal goes through her leg. She's supposed to hop out of her father's dump truck just before he dumps it and help "settle" the iron into the larger container. She is pinned by the metal in her leg and just manages to jump out at the last second. 17 foot fall, serious bruises, but she feels she's let him down--and he does, too. "How did you manage that?" he asks.
Older brother and narrator listening to classical music together--a shared bond outside the narrow scope of the family. He leaves the house later, pointing the way for her.
Another brother, helping the father, junk cars, is badly burned by car gasoline. Our narrator, at 10, manages to get the brother's leg into a black plastic bag filled with water that is held in place by a garbage pale. No doctor. Father on hillside putting out fire before the whole mountain burns. Brother screaming in agony.
Mom becomes midwife but is then injured badly in the second snowy/dark crash the family has. Both are caused by driving in insanely difficult conditions. Dad thinking "angels" are watching over him. After the second accident, Mom can't remember well enough to mix herbs for medicine or supervise child birth. She becomes a "muscle reader," some hocus-pocus tapping on muscles gives her the "power" to divine illnesses.
Who ever said Mormon's were a little odd?
Notable scenes: Father has daughter help him with his junkyard work and nearly kills her. Piece of metal goes through her leg. She's supposed to hop out of her father's dump truck just before he dumps it and help "settle" the iron into the larger container. She is pinned by the metal in her leg and just manages to jump out at the last second. 17 foot fall, serious bruises, but she feels she's let him down--and he does, too. "How did you manage that?" he asks.
Older brother and narrator listening to classical music together--a shared bond outside the narrow scope of the family. He leaves the house later, pointing the way for her.
Another brother, helping the father, junk cars, is badly burned by car gasoline. Our narrator, at 10, manages to get the brother's leg into a black plastic bag filled with water that is held in place by a garbage pale. No doctor. Father on hillside putting out fire before the whole mountain burns. Brother screaming in agony.
Mom becomes midwife but is then injured badly in the second snowy/dark crash the family has. Both are caused by driving in insanely difficult conditions. Dad thinking "angels" are watching over him. After the second accident, Mom can't remember well enough to mix herbs for medicine or supervise child birth. She becomes a "muscle reader," some hocus-pocus tapping on muscles gives her the "power" to divine illnesses.
Who ever said Mormon's were a little odd?
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