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Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wildernessâand of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
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When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy,âŚ
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Kizziaâs prose and reporting are unequaled, but this dark, Gothic tale is hard to read because of the real-life horror it exposes. The Pilgrim family came to Alaska in 2002, wrapping themselves in fundamentalist Christianity and fighting with the federal government like true pioneers in the wildernessâthey became a cause for the right because of how they seemed to fulfill Alaskaâs frontier myth. But it turned out the patriarch of the family had created a weird prison of rape and abuse for his uneducated children, which Kizzia was able to get inside with vividly told scenes. And that truth tellsâŚ
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