Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology by Mustard, Jamie

Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781637747087)

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Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology by Mustard, Jamie

Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology

$28.95
Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology by Mustard, Jamie

Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology

$28.95
Format: Hardcover
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"Hey, kid. Kid." A voice in the darkness of the slum dorm. I awoke to my stale, bare mattress. It was midnight. The arm of a male nanny reached into the closet where my bed was, roughly jostling me. "You have to get up. They're coming."

A notorious movement cloaked in secrecy. A prosperous Black family that rose from the ashes of American slavery. A forgotten boy. And a daring escape.

Jamie Mustard was born into one of the most influential fringe movements in the 1970s: Scientology. Raised on a mythology of spaceships and made to believe that it was his life's purpose to help save the world, he was determined to survive--not only neglect but also the physical and psychological gauntlets of extreme poverty and illiteracy.

A dark, existential journey, Child X takes readers through Jamie's childhood and adolescence in "the movement," his escape, and his rise into self-possession. This book tells the unfathomable story of a lost generation of children, who endured mass psychological indoctrination and captivity.

With wit and vulnerability, Jamie sheds light on one of the untold, but not uncommon, accounts of a powerful Black family that rose to prominence and wealth, and how the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s caused that rise to crumble. This deeply personal true story gives a child's-eye view of one of the most notorious American religious movements in history. It powerfully places Black American history into the captivating context of world history and events.

A universal story of resilience in the face of overwhelming odds, Child X celebrates yet transcends race--and is ultimately an uplifting story of rising out of adversity and building a life full of meaning and connection. With this book, Jamie works to restore his family's legacy and provide a salient saga of the road to humanity.

Author: Jamie Mustard
ISBN-10: 163774708X
ISBN-13: 9781637747087
Publisher: Benbella Books
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2025
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
By Jamie Mustard
By Jamie Mustard
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Jamie Mustard is a conceptual artist, artistic director, futurist and writer including his work on perception in the physical world relating to art, imagery and ideas. Jamie believes that 'emotional art' is an accelerator of social change. His work on the endurance of ideas has been featured in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, ABC News, Flaunt Magazine, Psychology Today and NPR. Growing up in severe poverty and illiteracy in inner city Los Angeles, Jamie overcame obstacles to eventually reverse engineer ideas to help humans STAND OUT based on primal laws. He believes that because of digital overload, we are all struggling to be seen and experiencing the same invisibility he felt as a child and calls this 'the economics of attention'.

His books have won the National Indie Excellence Award, the OWL--Outstanding Works in Literature--given by the largest e-commerce bookseller in the world, and runner-up for the PenCraft Book Award for Literary Excellence. Jamie is co-author of the groundbreaking book, The Invisible Machine on the biology of trauma and a children's book about resilience. His book, The Iconist is currently in-flight entertainment on American Airlines. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Jamie's work has included the world's leading universities, business, science, technology, art, design, creativity and non-profits--Nike, Cisco, Intel, Adidas, Symantec, Parsons The New School, Pratt Institute, Georgetown University, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Hult International Business School, US Army Special Forces, US Army Special Forces Psychological Operations, The Portland Art museum, Content London, The California Department of Public Health and TEDx at creative giant Wieden + Kennedy.

In late fall of 2025, his first graphic novel, HYBRED, will be released--a world written, conceived and art directed by Jamie, with all images drawn and colored in a little stone town in Southern Italy with artist Francesca Filomena.

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