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Escape | 
| Authors: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
List Price: CDN$ 32.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 255
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0767927567
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.3092
EAN: 9780767927567
ASIN: 0767927567
Publication Date: October 16, 2007
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Captivating Read June 6, 2008
Suzanne Taylor (Athabasca, AB, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book as I have always been interested in multi-wive families and this book most certainly provided a good read. Carolyn went through so much during her time trying to be loyal to her faith.
I typically don't read much, but this book really snagged me and I would think it would do the same for just about anyone who has read it. I doubt you will be dissapointed.
You just HAVE to read this. She deserves to have her story's read. All the women she represents do. December 3, 2007
Annie Brodeur (Montreal)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book is a window open on a world we don't really want to think about, but should. Polygamy still thrives in parts of the US and Canada, despite what most people assume. In an extremely closed community, Colorado City-Hildale, a woman is taught from infancy that the world at large (of which their knowledge is more than limited, it's along the lines of inexistent) is not only doomed, it's also evil because it doesn't practice The Principle. Here lies the core of their faith: being a plural wife is the highest fate there is. That knowledge is combined with the practice of 'perfect faith through perfect obedience' to her husband who, if he wants will pull her through the veil of the kingdom of God where her soul would live as one God's chosen. That one day the one mighty and strong would come and God's chosen would live through a thousand years of peace.
That's what Carolyn Jessop was brought up to believe.
That is not what she found. Reality was that if a woman doesn't keep sweet and isn't in perfect harmony with her husband and sister wives and isn't perfectly obedient to her husband and the favorite wife that woman is considered rebellious and is scorned by the community. That in such cases, every bad thing that came her way is God's way of punishing her. That a woman who isn't favoured (sexually, of course) would lead a miserable life. That a woman without a womb that produces babies is NOTHING. She isn't seen, She isn't heard, She isn't believed. She just isn't.
And that is the life you get to read about here. Simply, without frills, theatrics or writers tricks, we get the life of an amazingly strong, brave, resilient woman.
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