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The misery of growing up in a utopian community

Susanna Crossman recalls her childhood of bullying and sexual molestation in an Orwellian dystopia supposedly devoted to freedom and equality

5 October 2024

9:00 AM

5 October 2024

9:00 AM

Home Is Where We Start: Growing Up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream Susanna Crossman

Fig Tree, pp.320, 18.99

In Home Is Where We Start, Susanna Crossman quotes one of Nadine Gordimer’s characters on the subject of utopias:

When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on Earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

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