Lucia Greenhouse

Lucia Greenhouse grew up in an affluent and loving family, but her parents never took her to a doctor or hospital, not even when she got chicken pox or was knocked unconscious in a bicycle accident. As Christian Scientists, they believed that there were no such things as germs or diseases and that you could not get sick because you were perfect. fathermothergod is Greenhouse's memoir about growing up in the Christian Science faith and the painful consequences the family faced when her mother grew terribly ill.

 

 

Recorded On: Wednesday, November 2, 2011