{"product_id":"treat-us-like-dogs-and-we-will-become-wolves","title":"Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves","description":"\u003cp\u003eA compelling  compulsive follow up to The School on Hearts Content Road by a modern-day Dickensian voice (San Diego Union Tribune); a politically passionate portrait of a complicated  marginalized leader who refuses to silence his beliefs  and who may or may not be all that he seems.  Its the height of summer  1999  when local newspaper  the Record Sun  receives numerous tipoffs from anonymous callers warning of violence  weapons stockpiling  and rampant child abuse at the nearby homeschool on Hearts Content Road. Hungry for a big break into serious journalism  ingnue columnist Ivy Morelli sets out to meet the mysterious leader of the homeschool  Gordon St. Ongereferred to by many as The Prophet. Soon  Ivy ingratiates herself into the sprawling Settlement  a self-sufficient counterculture community that many locals fear to be a wild cult. Despite her initial skepticismnot to mention the Settlements ever-growing group of pregnant teenaged girlsIvy finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gordon.  Meanwhile  across town  Brianna  a gifted and disturbed teen with wild orange hair  paints her political and personal visions. At the behest of her brothers  Brianna joins the community. As her complicated  awkward relationship with Gordon unfolds  Brianna reveals herself to be a shy  yet passionate  individual  with a strange and troubling sexual past.  As the newcomers are drawn deeper into Settlement life  Gordons powerful magnetism and strange duality are exposed  and those rumors that led to his initial investigation seem  at times  to be all too possible realities. When the Record Sun finally runs its piece on Gordon  the exposure has a startling and unexpected effect on Settlement life and the world beyond it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986976043061,"sku":"ByrdShop_080211945X","price":44.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780802119452.jpg?v=1770921931","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/treat-us-like-dogs-and-we-will-become-wolves","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}