reporter: this is the book. it came out with 2 weeks ago. my first book was about my relationship with my adopted brother david. and growing up in a rural town in indiana and being sent off to a reform school in the dominican republic. so there were some parallels between the two books as far as race and kind of belonging to the cloistered society with religion. and also being sent away. when i got to be part writing about jonestown and how secluded and isolated and cut off from the world the jonestown residents were, i could really empathize with those people. oddly enough there were some punishment used in jonestown that were similar to punishment used to buy reform school. when people they had their heads shaved or they were put on something called raming support where they were had to run from place to place. that was interesting to see those parallels. and the book has its origin, i was writing a novel, a satirical novel about a charismatic preacher who takes over a