I doubt this is actually the case, but Drain spends little time critiquing the vile behavior and beliefs of the Westboro church family. As one reviewer on Amazon noted, it seemed that Drain, if she could, would go back to Westboro. However, Drain has very little negative to say about the Phelpses or the church. Sadly, the book became quite redundant and I found myself speed reading.īanished does offer a first-person account of how the Phelps clan lives. Drain spends significant time repeatedly detailing how she craved the approval of the Phelpses and how she went about trying to gain their approval. Page after page detail Drain’s angst over boys, make-up, dating, marriage, and the fear of going to hell. The church and her family did their best to destroy her mentally and emotionally, yet she came through it, and she deserves a lot of praise for what she has done with her life post-Westboro.īanished reads like a teenage girl’s diary. Throughout the book, it is evident that Lauren was mistreated and abused, and it is a wonder that she escaped with any sense of self-worth. Anyone who can escape the clutches of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church is to be commended. I wanted to like this book, I really did. She is a nurse and now lives in Connecticut with her fiancé. For a time she continued to live in Topeka.
In 2007, Lauren was kicked out of the church. The Drain family moved to Topeka to join the church in 2001 and they remain members to this day.
Lauren Drain spent her teenage years as a member of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. The book is 295 pages long and is published by Grand Central Publishing. The book is written by Lauren Drain (along with Lisa Pulitzer) a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. I recently finished reading, Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church.
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