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![]() ![]() In November 2012, at the age of twenty-six, she left the church, her family, and her life behind. 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. JON RONSON: 'Her journey - from Westboro to becoming one of the most empathetic, thoughtful, humanistic writers around - is exceptional and inspiring' NICK HORNBY: 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption' LOUIS THEROUX: 'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' Science & Technology: General & Referenceīook Title: Unfollow: Hatred To Hope (Uk)/T. ![]()
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