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Teri Buford O'Shea

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At age nineteen, author Teri O’Shea joined Peoples Temple in California led by Jim Jones. A member for seven years, she escaped Peoples Temple three weeks before the massacre in Jonestown, Guyana. The raw and powerful poems in Jonestown Lullaby explore her experience in Jonestown and the aftermath of her survival. A personal confidant to Jim Jones for seven years, O’Shea writes about the harrowing nightmare of Jonestown with an intensity and passion seldom captured in poetic form. Teri was the last person to escape Peoples Temple before the massacre in Jonestown; now, she turns to writing to help find her way back to a more peaceful life. Jonestown Lullaby records her voyage, with vivid, stark images of the bewildering world that was Jonest ...more

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Life in Jonestown

In Jonestown Lullaby, after the poems, are photographs of Peoples Temple members engaged in everyday life in Jonestown. Children are playing in a playground, elders are working in a garden, people of all ages are tilling fields, planting and harvesting crops, preparing food and eating together. The Jonestown settlers are young and old, black and white, friends and family members, doing activitie

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	Jonestown Lullaby: Poems And Pictures 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jonestown Lullaby: Poems and Pictures 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars