ForagerA moving, heart breaking, and lyrical true story of the author's escape from an apocalyptic cultand the survival skills that led to her freedom. My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields. As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was born into an ultra religious cultor the Field as they called itstarted in the 1930s by her grandfather, a mercurial,