Escape Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer PB medium Size 2007 Edition 413 pages Great overall condition, cover rubbed, slightly marked, bumped shelf wear secondhand book - pre-loved Includes highly comprehensive highly informative insightful astonishing narrative account by Carolyn Jessop born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), radical offshoot of the Mormon church. At 18, Carolyn was forced into an arranged marriage with a man 32 years older, with three other wives. Giving birth to eight children over the next fifteen years and having her life controlled by her dictator husband, Carolyn knew that she must escape her suffocating existence. The weird and shocking story that one hesitats to believe a sect like this with 10,000 polygamous followers, could really exist in 21st century America. When their leader started preaching the apocalypse was approaching she escaped with her eight children. Jessop's courage, heart-wrenching account is absolutely factual, riveting book reminds us that truth can indeed be much, much stranger than fiction. Book recounts significantly remarkable events in history of FLDS, which culminated in Carolyn and her eight children leave the restrictive confines the community. This story is her 'Escape' which is fascinating and terrifying exit from one of the most secretive

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