Review: This is an eye opening non-fiction book about a woman born into the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), which is a polygamist sect in Arizona. Jessop provides an inside look into the practices of this cult. This book read like fiction, I could not put it down. The whole time I kept having to tell myself that this really happened and this cult still exists today. Jessop escaped in 2003, that is only seven years ago.
Synopsis: At the age of 18 she is married off to a man who is 32 years her senior. Several of his daughters from his other wives were in Jessop's high school class. This book shows the abuse and discrimination practiced in this cult and preached as the only way to find salvation.
Jessop goes on to have eight children by her husband, one of the children is severely disabled and needs constant care. The new profit for FLDS begins to make some drastic changes to the community while preaching about the apocalypse, and Jessop realizes it is time to get out. Determined to leave with all eight of her children and maintain custody of them. Her husband and his wives are all against her. She leaves with no money and barely enough gas to get out of town. From there it only gets worse for Jessop.
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