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Rachel Louise Snyder survived a harrowing childhood in an cruel, evangelical family to become a globally recognised journalist and author.
She is a professor of creative writing and journalism at American University in Washington, DC; a former Guggenheim Fellow, the author of several books, with articles published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Atlantic and many others.
For two decades, Snyder travelled the globe covering stories of human rights, gender-based violence, natural disasters, displacement and war.
Now, for the first time, she's told her own story in a new memoir.
She was eight when her mother died of cancer. Her father quickly remarried, moved her and her brother half way across the United States, and plunged the family into an evangelical Christian, cult-like existence.
Kicked out of school and home aged 16, she embarked on life alone. She tells her story to Kathryn Ryan.
