In My Father's House

Min S. Yee

The world recoiled from the holocaust of Jonestown in disbelief. How could it have happened, this wholesale possession of intelligent and sensitive human beings in the grip of a mad messiah, even over the brink of self-annihilation? Not any of the several books given to us so far about Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple have come close to answering that staggering question. This one does. *In My Father's House* is, above all, the self-revelation of an American family—advantaged, sophisticated, successful—whose search for the American Dream became a harrowing nightmare of victimization and desperate survival. The Layton story is at once extraordinary and universal, as it tells us of: - The patriarch, Laurence, who came from fundamentalist Southern stock with a narrow, puritanical view of human morals to become an eminent research scientist, and a paterfamilias hard put to cope...

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