Cult Girls

By Nikki Powers, Kunna Aulia, Natalie Grand

Book Overview

Cult Girls based on a true story, tells the story of Talia and her friends as they struggle with growing suspicions that their faith is a patriarchal religious cult. It's a story of tremendous courage and female empowerment as Talia as her friends successfully free themselves told through a feminist lens with cautionary humor. Talia discusses the adversity faced as a young female raised in a cult that values its men over its women, meanwhile trying to find herself in the middle of several peer pressures. Rosa talks about how she was forced into a loveless marriage and struggles to find the means to escape. Sandy and Rochelle hope to fade out of their elder's attention while still trying to maintain a successful marriage. These four women were born, raised and married in the cult and they each have a different path consisting of their own individual passions, desires and goals.

Cult Girls has an educational backdrop of the harsh treatment that these peculiar individuals knocking on your door don't want you to know. It lightly touches on their shunning policies, lack of acknowledgment of modern medicine, and training its members to be martyrs that sacrifice their families, as well as an aversion to education and political processes. The healing journey is the discovery that there is hope for a better world, by realizing with their feminine energy they can make a change for the better in each a unique way.

Cult Girls won (3) 1st Place Gold Awards in the Human Relations Indie Book Awards in 2023.

Cult Girls won the Pencraft 1st Place Gold Award in 2022.

"Cult Girls has taken unmatched courage and determination to write so openly about life as Jehovah's Witness. Repercussions for speaking out against the church are real and the author clearly understands the impact her work will have on both members and those who may be recruited.. Her story is a poignant one told in the form of a graphic novel and based on a true story." Literary Titan 2023 1st Place Gold Award

"I loved what the author was trying to do with this book. I am personally no fan of the Jehovah's Witness cult... Fantastic to see an author trying to warn people about cults. And not in a dull way Fun, colourful, sexy - a very difficult approach to a difficult subject." Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2022

Cults Girls won the 1st Place Gold Bookfest Award in 2022

"Cult Girls... lightly touches on their shunning policies, lack of acknowledgment of modern medicine, and training its members to be martyrs that sacrifice their families, as well as an aversion to education and political processes. The healing journey is the discovery that there is hope for a better world, by realizing with their feminine energy they can make a change for the better in each a unique way." -MainCrest Media 2023 1st Place Gold Award

Cult Girls won the 2023 Next Generation Indie Award

"Natalie's "Cult Girls" introduces a sassy and colorful cast of characters interwoven with a classic collection of these triggering JW phrases like "announced", "marked", "the current magazines", "two witnesses", "stumbled", "privileges", "worldly men", "earthly hope", "treacherous heart", "part on the assembly", "witness to him", "good standing", "scripturally free", "local needs", "publisher card", "loose conduct", and many more.. These expressions are like a fingerprint that identifies the author as a genuine ex-cult member who lived and breathed life as a Jehovah's Witness, with all the restrictions and repressions. Natalie gives the world snippets of what it's like to be a female JW in a religion controlled entirely by men.... but Natalie has brought the world the first beautifully illustrated graphic novel. It's a must-have " -Mark J. O'Donnell, journalist & Activist, Crusades Season 1.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1736764799
• ISBN13: 9781736764794
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Comic Book Historians
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

I had religious trauma and this delight was recommended by my therapist.

I was raised a Jehovah's Witness too and sadly this is most of parents in the cult. My parents were much more abusive, because unhealthy people are attracted to radical movements that place religion over their families. I did a little research and Natalie is also an activist and I love her happy spirit and survival mentality. There is something we all can learn from that whether we are a refugee, survived the death of a loved one, grown up an orphan or survived an abusive relationship. Religions like this are very abusive and the children in it are robbed of an education, a childhood, dreams and passions. The moral of the story is that it is NEVER to late to leave a cult. Many of the ladies I know that left this religion their life was upgraded, happy and full of purpose and they have so much more free time to live an amazing life. Haha.

Excellent Anti-Cult Awareness! Beautiful art! Cults like JW need to stop shunning children, they tra

This is a story of hope! I loved the educational lense and slipped in comedy. I never meet some of my Jehovahs Witness grandparents, even some siblings and many aunts and uncles because my mother was viciously shunned from the church. My mother never spoke of her painful past, but I do remember being rejected on my grandparents doorsteps at age 8 with my mother when drove a long distance because she needed emotional support, they never let us in the house. This book gave me a glimpse to the how’s and why’s and I think all parents should buy for their young daughters to mentally prepare them for God driven cults with inhumane policies. Great Job Natalie Grand. It’s the first graphic novel for the ex-JW community and I thought it was unique, modern and I loved the graphic novel mode. Brilliant!