Bibliograph

The Community, a memoir, N. Jamiyla Chisholm

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The Community, a memoir, N. Jamiyla Chisholm

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Community

Oclc number

1319487936

Responsibility statement

N. Jamiyla Chisholm

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

"In 1978, when Jamiyla was two years old, her mother, Ummi, quit her job, converted to Islam with her husband, and moved into an exclusive Muslim society in Brooklyn. Once inside the Community, the family was separated by its powerful and charismatic leader, Dwight York, who was hiding behind the name Imam Isa. Forty years later, Jamiyla was ready to excavate and understand a past buried in bad dreams, disturbing memories, and inexplicable rage. Jamiyla's emotional memoir tells her family's story of life inside and outside the cult, and of escaping into new challenges as conservative Muslims in the secular Brooklyn they left behind. A harrowing and deeply personal history fraught with racial tension and devastating personal betrayals, The Community is also a hopeful story brimming with Black pride, justice, and the long-overdue healing between a daughter and mother"--, Provided by publisher

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