AFriendoftheFamilyisbasedontheharrowingtruestoryoftheBrobergfamily,whosedaughterJanwaskidnappedmultipletimesoveraperiodofyearsbyacharismatic,obsessedfamily“friend.”TheBrobergs—devotedtotheirfaith,family,andcommunity—wereutterlyunpreparedforthesophisticatedtacticstheirneighborusedtoexploittheirvulnerabilities,drivethemapart,andturntheirdaughteragainstthem.Thisisthestoryofhowtheirliveswerepermanentlyaltered—andhowtheysurvived.