![]() ![]() Minnow learns to read and discovers that, although she believes she’ll be sent to the adult prison when she turns 18, she would like to learn much more. While in juvenile detention, however, her savvy cellmate, Angel, introduces her to the world of science. ![]() Jude tries to teach her to read, but he too has been kept in ignorance. (Manufactured whole cloth by the Prophet, their religion has nothing to do with Christianity.) In the woods, she meets Jude, to whom she is drawn even though he is an outsider and forbidden. Girls are kept illiterate, and polygyny is the order of the day. The Prophet rules through fear, inflicting sadistic punishments for any infraction, including chopping off Minnow’s hands. Minnow was taken at a young age to live with her family in an extreme cult called the Community. A girl who has just escaped a destructive cult after her hands were cut off lives in juvenile detention, found guilty of assault, a crime she indeed did commit. ![]()
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