Super Short Summary

Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres is a memoir set in the 1970s detailing the author's childhood as the daughter of Calvinist missionaries in Indiana and the sister of two adopted African-American boys, David and Jerome. Facing racial and sexual abuse, and living under the threat of their father's violence, Julia and David ultimately find themselves in an abusive reform school in the Dominican Republic, where they rely on each other for survival. Includes descriptions of child abuse, sexual abuse, and racism.