Greetings from Utopia Park is a unique autobiography when it comes to the genre of memoirs written by cult survivors. Hoffman's grappling with her conflicting feelings on the value she's found in transcendental meditation and the fraud and extortion of the community committed by the organization that taught her the method lends itself to a more in depth an nuanced understanding of her childhood experiences than other religions I've read about. The luster of childhood and the idea of belonging slowly falling away is something so many of us can relate to.