Annette Davis's Reviews > The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult

The impact of this easy to read book is in the author's ability to make his truly unusual situation(a black child raised by blind parents in a white supremacist cult) accessible to the reader who has not lived his experience. A masterful employment of sensory details makes each episode vivid and immediate. The quirky and toxic details of the particular Doomsday cult in this book(Worldwide Church of God) fade in comparison to the impact of the guilt focused theology. Many of us can identify with the blend of anxiety and over scrupulousness which it generates.