{ "item_title" : "The Sequel", "item_author" : [" Luke Pomery "], "item_description" : "The manuscript opens in 1983, long before the red dirt of Western Australia entered the frame. A skinny, eight-year-old Luke Pomery was living in the remote, coastal Gulf country of Numbulwar in the Northern Territory, where his father, Neil, operated as the local shop manager. It was within the walls of this isolated homestead that the systematic physical degradation was born.Neil established a regime of complete psychological and physical dominance over his young children. It was here that he weaponised a military-grade conditioning drill he sadistically nicknamed Flying to Fiji. The parameters were absolute: the eight-year-old boy was forced to stand or kneel completely rigid with his arms locked straight out horizontally for hours on end. If his small, developing shoulder blades sagged a single millimetre from exhaustion, the punishment was met with the immediate threat.In December 1984, following his biological mother's divorce from Neil in 1982/1983, the family was uprooted from South Australia and dragged into the deep isolation of Western Australia, taking over the sprawling, 450,000-acre Moolapool Station outside Meekatharra. By 1989, the property ballooned into a massive 1.2-million-acre pastoral empire. Luke's biological mother was mostly absent from this landscape, leaving the seven children completely isolated with Neil and Vonn Luke's step-mum, 100 kilometers away from Meekatharra.From the ages of nine to twenty-one, Luke was treated not as a son, but as an unpaid asset to be worked into the ground.The flying to Fiji torture was dragged out into the elements in 1983 while at Numbulwar; Luke and his other siblings were forced to kneel for what seemed like hours or until his father thought it was time.Amidst this industrial warfare, the family endured its heaviest tragedy. In 1985, Luke's youngest sister, Lilli-who carried a traditional name honoring her stepmother's Numbulwar saltwater lineage-passed away on the station as a baby. She was the first to escape the regime, remaining completely pure, sane, and untouched by the violence that systematically dismantled the surviving siblings as the years rolled on.The manuscript documents a dual-front war. Trapped between the violent tyranny of Moolapool and the predatory nature of the institution, Luke's fight-or-flight response was pushed past the breaking point every single day for twelve continuous years until he finally broke clean from the station in April 1996.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/044/9798160440347_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "25.00", "online_price" : "25.00", "our_price" : "25.00", "club_price" : "25.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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