An edition of It's Not a Cult (2023)

It's Not a Cult

A Novel

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An edition of It's Not a Cult (2023)

It's Not a Cult

A Novel

Mona Awad's Bunny meets Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in Lauren Danhof's captivating debut, in which a daughter races to save her mother from a dangerous cult before it's too late.

Glinda Glass is truly trying her best. After dropping out of her graduate school program, she moves back to her childhood home with her mom—who has not only joined a cult, the Starlight Pioneer Society, but has also become enraptured by its charismatic and menacing leader, Arlon. When she’s not trying to get her twin sister Dorothy to finally speak to her or keep her younger sister West out of trouble, Glinda spends her days working in the Drench-the-Wench dunking booth at the local Renaissance fair with her only friend and co-worker Troy, who may or may not be falling in love with her.

Once Glinda learns that the cult will be turning her family’s home into their commune, she suspects there’s more to Arlon than meets the eye and decides to take matters into her own hands—even if that means infiltrating the cult herself. There, she realizes things are far more sinister than she could have ever imagined and that she must get her mom out from under the spell of Arlon by any means necessary. But Glinda can’t do it on her own; in order to save her mother, she’ll have to come to terms with her own history of trauma and grief and repair her relationships with her sisters and Troy.

Glinda always has the best intentions, even if her emotionally clumsy efforts to fix things constantly end in disaster. With the fate of her family on the line, will this time be different?

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Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Language
English
Pages
336

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It's Not a Cult: A Novel
2023, Crooked Lane Books
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Other Titles
The Starlight Pioneer Society

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
336
Weight
0.369

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL46110532M
ISBN 10
1639104380
ISBN 13
9781639104383
OCLC/WorldCat
1394859138
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1639104380
Goodreads
79036492

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Work ID
OL34051398W
LibraryThing
29614035

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