The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult

by Jerald Walker

Book Overview

A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world--for fans of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird.

It's 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions--including a prohibition against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807027502
• ISBN13: 9780807027509
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"