Paradise Undone

Description:

Imagine a community full of rainbow families where everyone comes together in the spirit of equality and fraternal love. Shy pastor's daughter Marceline and her new husband Jim Jones found Peoples Temple in the face of rampant hostility and aggression in 1950s segregated AmeriKKKa. They give hope to the poor, the miserable, the alienated and disenfranchised of all colors, and build a commune in the jungle of British Guyana. But this Eden too has its serpent. One who is also jealous of God, and where he goes, everyone must follow, even to the grave.

subjects: Jonestown,  Peoples Temple,  fiction,  historical fiction,  Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978

People: Jim Jones (1931-1978)

Places: Guyana,  Jonestown (Guyana)