``It is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. explores how she has found meaning and purpose within that Decade that for so long she thought of as lost; how she has faced the ``flunk`` represented by those years, and has embraced a way to ``start`` anew..
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Hall is a captivating guide, and Flunk.
However, as Hall begins to grasp how purposefully Hubbard has created the unique language of Scientology--in the process isolating and indoctrinating its practitioners--she confronts how language can also be used as a tool of authoritarianism.
In this candid and nuanced memoir, Hall recounts her spiritual and artistic journey with a visceral affection for language, delighting in the way words can create a shared world.
In the secluded canyons of Hollywood, she finds herself increasingly drawn toward the certainty that Scientology appears to offer.
As a young woman from a literary family striving to forge her own way as an artist, Hall ricochets between the worlds of Shakespeare, avant-garde theater, and soap opera, until her brilliant elder brother, playwright Oakley Hall III, falls from a bridge and suffers permanent brain damage.
Hall compellingly reveals what drew her into the religion--what she found intriguing and useful--and how she came to confront its darker sides.
Ron Hubbard, and the ascension of David Miscavige.
Her time in the Church, the late 1970s, includes the secretive illness and death of its founder, L.
Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology.
Bender, author of Refund, a finalist for the National Book Award In Flunk.
It is a necessary book for our time.`` --Karen E. ``It is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight
