Back to the World : A Life after Jonestown

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. 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. Back To The World Is The Story Of A Double Survival: First Of The Destruction Of The Idealistic But Tragically Flawed Peoples Temple Community, Then Of Its Aftermath. Having Survived, Smith Has Hard Questions For Today's America-- Provided By Publisher.