![]() ![]() ![]() From her first public protest, aged five, to her instrumental role in spreading the church's invective via social media, her formative years brought their difficulties. Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and notorious for its picketing the funerals of American soldiers. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world of extreme discipline, of siblings vanishing in the night. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. It was an upbringing in many ways normal. ![]() JON RONSON: 'Her journey - from Westboro to becoming one of the most empathetic, thoughtful, humanistic writers around - is exceptional and inspiring'Īs featured on the BBC documentaries, 'The Most Hated Family in America' and 'Surviving America's Most Hated Family' ![]() NICK HORNBY: 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption' LOUIS THEROUX: 'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' ![]()
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