- Cults, Polygamy, Family life, Fiction
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Carol Lynch Williams
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 213
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin, Simon & Schuster Children's, Brand: Macmillan Audio
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847389398
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