Excerpt from Paradise Undone by Annie Dawid
29/02/08 14:10
PARADISE UNDONE tells the stories of four individuals
involved in the Jonestown massacre -- one is
Marceline Jones, wife of Jim, and another is based on
the Guyanese ambassador to the United States. The
other two are fictions, though composites of actual
survivors. My novel follows these four people from
long before Jonestown became a horrifying household
name for us all -- the meeting of Jim and Marceline
in 1949 -- to the present moment, when Watts Freeman,
who escaped through the jungle, is being interviewed
for a 30-year anniversary radio program.
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