The Sacred Lies Of Minnow Bly:
Every so often there are books you come across that are unpleasant, that fill your stomach with a sense of dread at the knowledge of the subject matter, but that you soldier through reading anyways because they are so damn important. The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes is one of those books. From just the synopsis, it’s clear that the novel is going to deal with not one, but several unsavory topics: a cult, a botched amputation, and the juvenile detention system. However, despite dealing with so many intense topics, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly provides more than just an entertaining story. It handles those tough topics with an insightful nod to the happenings and phenomena that mirror it in our own contemporary world.
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