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Escape



by Jessop, Carolyn
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  • 10/16/2007
  • 9780767927567
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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.

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Escape

Author: Jessop, Carolyn

Description: 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 byreligious 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 envir

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Pages: 413
Publisher: Broadway Books
Language:English
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Author: Jessop, Carolyn Palmer, Laura


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Overall Rating: Overall Rating 4 out of 5
Esacape,  May 31, 2008
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Tommie7 from  Rockland, ME Read all my reviews  (read all my reviews)
Very eye opening, and it is a shame that the people of their community c an not leave on their own, The Children, will have a hard time, in their life. Thanks The lady that i read about, had to prepare her children nfor the escape, and it was harowing for them the church did go looking for them, I could write more, but can't at this time, Please try to read it yourself, Thanks
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escape,  Apr 10, 2008
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joannie1 from  Arizona Read all my reviews  (read all my reviews)
This is a great book. I found it very inspirational and informative. The book explains much of what goes on in the FLDS society, it is very relavent to what is happening right now in the Texas compound, many of the same people are involved. Excellent book!
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Escape,  Feb 12, 2008
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BigLucy from  Indiana Read all my reviews  (read all my reviews)
A decent read, but the story repeated itself quite a bit. I think if the story had been shortened, it might have held my interest longer.
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Escape,  Feb 8, 2008
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LibDe from  Ridgecrest, Ca. Read all my reviews  (read all my reviews)
This book is a "page turner". It is extremely interesting. I could barely put it down. It is VERY enlightening and informative. Human interest, very strong appeal.
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