{"product_id":"back-to-the-world-a-life-after-jonestown-9780875657783","title":"Back to the World: A Life After Jonestown","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 he had left behind. \"My first responsibility as a survivor,\" he writes, \"was not to embarrass my mother or my wife or my child, and to set an example that can't be questioned.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBack to the World: A Life after Jonestown \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a double survival: first of the destruction of the idealistic but tragically flawed Peoples Temple community, then of its aftermath. \u003cbr\u003e Having survived, Smith has hard questions for today's America. \"It's irritating to me that, four decades later, like a broken record, we're going through all this all over again,\" he writes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Christian University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780875657783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200","brand":"Eugene Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39638504931509,"sku":"9780875657783","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c3c30733-c904-425e-bd3b-eaf837fa7ff7.jpg?v=1617682300","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/back-to-the-world-a-life-after-jonestown-9780875657783","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}