Carolyn Jessop
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| Original Title: | Escape |
| ISBN: | 0767927567 (ISBN13: 9780767927567) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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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 money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse—at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife’s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name. Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.Declare Out Of Books Escape
| Title | : | Escape |
| Author | : | Carolyn Jessop |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 413 pages |
| Published | : | October 16th 2007 by Broadway Books |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Religion. Biography Memoir. Cults |
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This is certainly a must-read if you live in Utah, or Texas; if you are Mormon; or if you think polygamy is a victimless crime. It would certainly be interesting if a current polygamist wife could write her version of life in the FLDS community! This book is horrifying, but fascinating. It's difficult to believe anything like this is happening in THIS century.This book was very informative about flds culture and easy to read. I admit I skimmed parts, but I was more interested in getting the big picture and dude, what a hard life. It always frustrates me so much when people are so blithe about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, as though it's just so easy to escape the circumstances of our birth and culture and build an independent life. This book clearly illustrates the many flaws in the whole boot-strap mind-set. It took a lot of lucky breaks
Fascinating and crazy, or maybe the order should be reversed. It is almost impossible to believe that this could be anybody's reality. Horrifying is probably the more accurate word for this story.This book is so much better than The Sound of Gravel, that I read earlier in 2016. It gives a true glimpse into the core of polygamy, into the crazy world of (insane) prophets. Into a world of complete obedience, where control is being achieved in unimaginable ways. Control preventing the minimum
This book was not particularly well written, but I give it four stars because I found it engrossing. The insight into polygamy and the cult mentality was enlightening. Jessop paints herself in a very positive light, and the cynic in me wonders what is true and what is not. However, the fact that she had a severely disabled child (along with seven others) and still managed to get them all out couldn't help but win my sympathy. The book also helped me better understand one of my favorite HBO
I'm reading this book again. Sometimes it contradicts in some places and it gets repetitive but the main thing to remember is WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE HAVE TO STAY IN THESE STUPID ASS CULTS?I reckon they are brain washed into them, but it's so warped! Children are supposed to be gifts from God but you smack them around and beat them. Women have no choice and get stuck marrying men they don't want to marry. It's not like the men have it any better, but at least they don't have to bow to some jerk
I don't know where to begin at how amazing, shocking, and ultimately hopeful this book is. When I first started I thought it would be a quick read because I had read a few memoirs from wives that had left(escaped) polygamy and the FLDS. Not so! I was fully engaged by the time Carolyn married Marril. What a hellish existance and a brave journey to freedom.I immediately looked up Jeffs and Jessop after I finished. There is a photo of Merril Jessop's first 6 wives and reading about Jeffs trial was
Wow! This author did it again! I loved her book Triumph so I had to read Escape. Both were amazing and super eye opening!!!*P.s. This is my first 5 star book of 2018*This book goes through Carolyn's life. It starts off with her being born into Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and ending with her freedom and her success of her children.When she was eighteen years old she had an arranged marriage Merril Jessop, a man 30 years older than her and who already had
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