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A father-daughter tale that instructs of the author's experience growing up in a fundamentalist, separatist Christian cult, from the writer of the national best vendor Ghostwalk Rebecca Stott both adored and feared her dad, Roger Stott, a high-ranking minister in the Brighton, Great britain, branch of the Exclusive Brethren, a separatist fundamentalist Christian sect. A guy of contradictions, he preached that the Brethren should shun the exterior world, that was ruled by Satan, yet he placed a radio in the trunk of his car and read Shakespeare and Yeats. Years later, when the Stotts broke with the Brethren after having a scandal relating to the cult's leader, Roger became an actor and compulsive gambler who kept the family penniless and ended up in prison. A inquisitive child, Rebecca spent her insular youth requesting questions about the entire world, questions that travelled ignored, and trying to glean the answers from forbidden catalogue books. Only when she was an adult and her dad was dying of cancer tumor did Rebecca begin to understand all that had took place during those harrowing years. It was then that Roger Stott handed Rebecca the memoir he had begun writing about the period leading up to what he called the distressing "Nazi decade", the years in the 1960s where he and other Brethren market leaders enforced coercive rules of patterns that resulted in the breaking apart of young families, the shunning of users, even suicides. Now he was seeking to examine that point and his complicity in it, and he asked Rebecca to create about any of it, to expose all that was kept hidden. In the times of Rainfall is Rebecca Stott's try to make sense of her youth in the Exclusive Brethren, to comprehend her father's role in the cult and in the breaking apart of her family, and also to become at peacefulness with her romance with a larger-than-life figure whose faults were matched up by a passion for life, a thirst for knowledge, and a love of books and beauty. A father-daughter tale as well as a memoir of growing up in a closed-off community and then finding a means out of it, this is an inspiring and beautiful bank account of the bonds of family and the energy of self-invention.
