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Paradise Undone, A Novel of Jonestown is a part real, part imagined retelling of the tragic events that led to the USA's biggest single loss of civilian life in the twentieth century.
On November 18th 1978, nine hundred and nine people died in the Guyanese jungle. Published on the 45th anniversary, Annie Dawid's compelling story of Jonestown explores the tragedy through the voices of four protagonists - Marceline Baldwin Jones and three other members of Peoples Temple. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Annie Dawid blends fact and fiction, using real and composite characters to tell a story about the horrific mass murder/suicide that took place in the Guyanese jungle, all because of one man with a God complex.
On November 18th 1978, nine hundred and nine people died in the Guyanese jungle. Published on the 45th anniversary, Annie Dawid's compelling story of Jonestown explores the tragedy through the voices of four protagonists - Marceline Baldwin Jones and three other members of Peoples Temple. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Annie Dawid blends fact and fiction, using real and composite characters to tell a story about the horrific mass murder/suicide that took place in the Guyanese jungle, all because of one man with a God complex.
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"A haunting and deeply human portrayal of Jonestown, capturing both hope and devastation"
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"Paradise Undone is a quiet, devastating novel that lingers long after you finish it. Annie Dawid approaches Jonestown not as a spectacle, but as a deeply human tragedy, focusing on the emotional and psychological paths that led people there in the first place... That moral complexity is what makes the novel so unsettling."
Goodreads
"Through the voices of Marceline, Virgil, Watts, and Truth, I felt the devotion, doubt, and despair of people caught in something far bigger than themselves. Their struggles and their terrible decisions brought about their conflicts which made it impossible to remain unmoved."
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