In September 2010, at Sarah Lawrence College, sophomore Talia Ray asked her roommates if her father could stay with them for a while. Larry Ray arrived at the dorm, a communal house called Slonim Woods 9, and stayed for the whole year. Eventually, Ray and the students moved into a small apartment, beginning years of manipulation and abuse, as Ray tightened his control over his young charges through blackmail, extortion, and ritualized humiliation. This brave, lyrical, and redemptive memoir reveals how a group of friends were led from campus to a cult without the world even noticing.
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