Girl at the End of the World: My Escape from Fundamentalism in Search of Faith with a Future

Esther grew up in a high-control religious group founded by her grandfather — physical discipline enforced as theology, isolation from the outside world maintained as holiness. She writes about deconstructing a faith that was identical with her earliest sense of self. The difficulty is that leaving the cult meant leaving everything she had ever loved. That is what makes it a grief memoir as much as a survival one.