Back to the World: A Life After Jonestown

by Eugene Smith

Book Overview

Eugene Smith lost his mother, wife, and infant son in the mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Repatriated by the US authorities on New Year's Eve, he broke a $50 bill stashed in his shoe to buy breakfast for himself and a fellow survivor.

Returning to California at age twenty-one, Smith faced the daunting challenge of building from scratch a meaningful and self-sufficient life in the American society he thought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875657788
• ISBN13: 9780875657783
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"