| Author/Contributor(s): | Gale, Kate |
| Publisher: | SJP Lit |
| Date: | 3/2/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
“Haunting, darkly illuminating . . . hard to put down and impossible to shake.” —Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author of Cultish
Raised in a doomsday cult, Kate Gale was taught to fear the outside world. But the books she secretly rescued would become her way out.
At four years old, Gale was given by her mother to a religious community in rural New Hampshire known as the Farm, where three hundred believers prepared for the Rapture by building boats that could never sail. For the next fourteen years, Gale endured hunger, beatings, and relentless labor, all in the name of becoming a perfect "soldier of God."
To survive, she learned to perform the faith demanded of her. But in secret, she began collecting books confiscated from new members. Through their pages, she discovered worlds beyond the Farm—and began to imagine a future that belonged to her.
Told through shards of memory with wit and lyricism, Little Soldiers follows Gale from a childhood of deprivation and control to her escape at eighteen and, ultimately, the founding of her own publishing house. It is the extraordinary story of a woman who forged herself anew through literature, broke free of the tethers of her past, and dedicated her life to creating space for other voices.