At age nineteen, author Teri O'Shea joined Peoples Temple in California led by Jim Jones. A member for seven years, she escaped Peoples Temple three weeks before the massacre in Jonestown, Guyana. The raw and powerful poems in "Jonestown Lullaby" explore her experience in Jonestown and the aftermath of her survival. A personal confidant to Jim Jones for seven years, O'Shea writes about the harrowing nightmare of Jonestown with an intensity and passion seldom captured in poetic form. Teri was the last person to escape Peoples' Temple before the massacre in Jonestown; now, she turns to writing...
At age nineteen, author Teri O'Shea joined Peoples Temple in California led by Jim Jones. A member for seven years, she escaped Peoples Temple three w...