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I immediately ordered this book after I finished Barnes' first memoir. Imagine my dismay when it appeared that the first 70+ pages were a recap of what I'd just read? When I read closely, I did discover that additional information was included in the first section, especially concerning her teen years. So, all is forgiven!
That gripe aside, Barnes' tells an even more painful story in this book than in her first. She does a convincing job of drawing parallels between the male domination of her early life in the church and her later life as a cherished, debased object used at the pleasure of an older man. She isn't preachy, either. She assumes the reader's intelligence will draw the lines from one set of requirements for female behavior to the other set of requirements. I appreciated that.
Whether trying to please church elders or a sadistic trucker, Barnes is compliant, tireless, self-abnegating and completely, totally, tragically lost. Except...she isn't. She retains, somewhere deep in her core, a sense of the right to exist, to express, to grow. She survives. It's one harrowing tale, even with the care Barnes takes in relating some of the more sensational aspects.
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From the author of the critically acclaimed In the Wilderness, comes a riveting new narrative of self-discovery and personal triumph. Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way.
On the day of her 1976 high school graduation in Lewiston, Idaho, Kim Barnes decided she could no longer abide the patriarchal domination of family and church. After a disagreement with her father–a logger and fervent adherent to the Pentecostal Christian faith–she gathered her few belongings and struck out on her own. She had no skills and no funds, but she had the courage and psychological sturdiness to make her way, and to eventually survive the influence of a man whose dominance was of a different and more menacing sort. Hungry for the World is a classic story of the search for knowledge and its consequences, both dire and beautiful.
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