![]() ![]() From her first public protest, aged five, to her instrumental role in spreading the church's invective via social media, her formative years brought their difficulties. Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and notorious for its picketing the funerals of American soldiers. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world of extreme discipline, of siblings vanishing in the night. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. ![]() It was an upbringing in many ways normal. ![]() ![]() A brave, unsettling, and fascinating memoir about the damage done by religious fundamentalism' NPRĪ Radio Four Book of the Week Pick for June 2021Īs featured on the BBC documentaries, 'The Most Hated Family in America' and 'Surviving America's Most Hated Family' 'A nuanced portrait of the lure and pain of zealotry' New York Times 'Such a moving, redemptive, clear-eyed account of religious indoctrination' - Pandora Sykes 'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - Louis Theroux ![]()
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