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Carolyn Jessop – Laura Palmer: Escape Carolyn Jessop – Laura Palmer: Escape

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… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2007

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Broadway, New York, 2007
442 oldal · ISBN: 0767927567 · ASIN: B000WQ11GY
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Penguin, London, 2007
416 oldal · ISBN: 9780141031514

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Carolyn Jessop – Laura Palmer: Escape

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