BOOK Leaving Fishers

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Haddix, Margaret Peterson._Leaving Fishers_,1997
 [0-689-82461-0] pbk
This is a significant book and probably should be required reading
for HS parents.  Dorry moves to a new town and she has trouble
making friends until she approached by some very friendly kids.
They invite her to come to parties and meeting of the Fishers (of
men), a Christian cult.  The story is told in first person and is very
vivid as to how she is brainwashed, slowly but surely.  She starts
out with many doubts and some agreements but by the end she
has fewer doubts and more agreements.  Finally there is a blow up
and she tries to quit and the group is very nasty to her.  The title is
really misleading.  Most of the book involves the brainwashing and
membership; just the last 10% deals with leaving.  My one concern
about this 262 page book is that someone will not finish it and
think it is condoning this religious fervor.  Make sure you read this
one!
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Frederick Muller
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