Burned
Language: English
Addiction Alcoholism Aunts Christian Christianity Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Drugs; Alcohol; Substance Abuse Dysfunctional families Family Family problems Fiction General Identity Identity (Psychology) Juvenile Fiction Mormons Mystery & Detective Nevada Novels in verse Parents Physical & Emotional Abuse Problem families Psychology Psychopathology Religion Religious Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance Sex Social Issues Teenage girls Values & Virtues
Publisher: New York : Simon Pulse, 2007.
Published: Oct 23, 2007
Description:
SUMMARY:
Raised in a stern, abusive Mormon household, a teenage girl starts to question her religion and struggles to find her destiny. Her father is abusive, her mother is submissive, and her church looks the other way. Confused and angry, Pattyn Von Stratten acts out and is sent to live with an aunt on a Nevada ranch. She finds the love and acceptance she craves, with disturbing consequences.
SUMMARY:
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.