- Mormon women, Polygamy, Arranged marriage, Religious aspects
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 426
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Broadway, Broadway Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780767927574
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