Synanon Kid: A Memoir Of Growing Up In The Synanon Cult (Synanon Kid Books, #1)

"I told you mothers do not matter here. We are all your mothers. Isn't that better than just having one?"

An ordinary weekend turns surreal when Celena's mother, whom she has not seen for years, returns to claim her. Told that she is going to visit a place called Synanon, six-year-old Celena leaves her native Los Angeles on a bus for a secluded ranch setting in Northern California where the residents are strangely bald and dressed uniformly in overalls.

Coming to realize this eerie institutio...