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    Holy Candy: Why I Joined A Cult And Married A Stranger

    By Yolande Brener

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    What is the purpose of life?
    Is there a spiritual world?
    Does true love exist?
    If there is a God, why does he allow innocents to suffer?

    The desire to find answers to these questions–passed to her on a business card–led Yolande Brener to embark on a bizarre, 15-year odyssey in a cult that would climax in her participation in one of the largest mass marriages in history.

    In Holy Candy, Yolande Brener pulls back the curtain on the church's doings - but this is far from a simple black and white expose. Spooky, riveting, and utterly believable, this award-winning memoir will keep you reading well into the night.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYolande Brener
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    ISBN9781311295569
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    Holy Candy: Why I Joined A Cult And Married A Stranger
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    Yolande Brener

    Yolande Brener is an English writer living in New York, author of the memoir, Holy Candy: Why I Joined A Cult And Married A Stranger. She has worked as an actress, filmmaker, singer in an all-girl band, and disciple of an alleged Messiah. Her essays have been published in New York Press, nerve.com, Strange Angels, State of Art and Harlem World. Her film scripts have been funded by the British Film Institute and the Arts Council of Great Britain. She won the 2010 NYC Parks Department Poems in the Park competition. Her memoir, Holy Candy, won First Place in the 2014 Writer's Digest Self-Published eBook Awards. She is currently writing her first novel.

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