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Escape
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.3092
EAN: 9780767927567
ISBN: 0767927567
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: October 16, 2007
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Studio: Broadway
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Editorial Review: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.
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Rating:  - Unforgettable Memoir
How do you take a young girl and convince her that marrying a man nearly three times her age is the will of God and will allow her access to the highest celestial kingdom-- add a little bit of brainwashing, a whole lot of intimidation and keep her pregnant 8 times in 15 years so she doesn't know whether she's coming or going.
Jessop articulately retells her story beginning with the dreams of a hopeful child to the harsh reality of living in a loveless, polygamous marriage to an abusive ... Read More
Rating: - Escaping and FLDS cult
Carolyn Jessop's story of escaping with her 8 children from an FLDS cult is shocking and disturbing. I admire her courage and tenacity in freeing herself from the cruelty and damage the cult inflicts upon its members, especially women and children and young boys who are deemed a threat or not worthy. She is to be commended for breaking free.
I do not agree that the book could have been better written--or that she portrays herself without going into detail about her mistakes. This is ... Read More
Rating:  - Amazing Story
I didn't like this book. Not because it wasn't a truely amazing story but because as she was describing the tension that was going on in her life it made me tense also. It took me a long time to read it because it stressed me out too much.
She tended to repeat herself a few times during the book and sometimes the writing was a little unorganized. She is a novice writer and I blame most of that on the editor.
Overall it's an amazing story. It truely gives a detailed account ... Read More
Rating: - Eye Opening
This book opened my eyes like no other I've ever read. I honestly had no idea that the conditions of a FLDS home were that severe. My heart ached for Carolyn as I read about the abuse she and her children suffered at the hands of Merrill Jessop. The book is very well-written and one that I had a very hard time putting down.
Hands down the most troubling - but one of the best captured stories I've ever read.
Rating: - Amazing Strength
Carolyn Jessop is a lesson in courage. Not only has she fought an incredibly inhumane man for her and her children's freedom, but she has provided great insight to the atrocities occurring within the cult of the FLDS. I commend her strength, endurance and grace.
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