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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 289.3092 EAN: 9780767927567 ISBN: 0767927567 Label: Broadway Manufacturer: Broadway Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: October 16, 2007 Publisher: Broadway Release Date: October 16, 2007 Studio: Broadway Editorial Review: Product Description: The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy. Carolyn’s every move was dictated by her husband’s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse—at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife’s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name. Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An Important BookThis is the tale of a young woman who is born into the FLDS and against all odds escapes with her children. It is a story that everyone should read because many people are not aware some of these truly horrific things are occurring in America. It is an enlightening book that made me want to take a stand. Rating:  - Painful to read but worth it.As a mother, and an independent and happily married woman, I found it very difficult to read. The abuse of children by the other mothers, the abuse by husband and "sister wives", the abuse by parents, cousins, uncles etc. was sometimes more than I could read. And Jessop was not very descriptive and purposefully vague of the horrors she could only hint at. Her awakening comes when "evil doers" on the outside show her and her children more compassion and tenderness than her own family and community. ... Read More Rating: - Riviting Story, Excellently WrittenAmazing story. As I read the descriptions of the abuse and power culture in the FLDS I was reminded of similar forces I've seen at work in a fundamentalist Islamic country I visited a few years ago. While the Islam I saw came no where close to approaching the depth or scope of the FLDS it does seem that religions that teach male dominance (which can be, but is not necessarily expressed through polygamy) naturally develop a culture of abuse. The cycle of abuse leads to more abuse which flashes out from ... Read More Rating: - EscapeI know that there are two sides to every story, but I still felt a great compassion for the poor ladies stuck in this lifestyle. This was an excellent read, and it definitely left me wanting more! Rating: - EscapeEscapeI found this book both harrowing and obsorbing, I couldn't put it down, I just wanted to see what happened next. Carolyn Jessop is a great Autheress and she write a very deep and moving account of her life in a Polygamist cult. I would strongly recommend this, it is a very hard hitting and brave account of a lady who was determined to get herself and her children to safety. I want to read it again, I am full of admiration for this lady and the gripping story she tells of her amazing survival and experience. ... Read More |
