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Escape [Hardcover]

Carolyn Jessop (Author), Laura Palmer (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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Seventeen years after being forced into a polygamous marriage, Jessop escaped from the cultlike Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints with her eight children. She recounts the horrid events that led her to break free from the oppressive world she knew and how she has managed to survive since escaping, despite threats and legal battles with her husband and the Church. Though sometimes her retelling overflows with colorful foreshadowing and commentary on how exceptional she is, the everyday details she reveals about this polygamous society are devastating and tragic. Frasier delivers Jessop's words in a soft voice that develops intriguingly from an innocent and naïve tone into a more assertive and self-confident one that mirrors Jessop's journey. She maintains the same rhythm, but through the inspired words of the text, she really embraces Jessop's persona. The bonus telephone interview with Jessop on the final disc suffers from poor sound quality and, unfortunately, doesn't add any new information. Simultaneous release with the Doubleday hardcover.
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"Escape provides an astonishing look behind the tightly drawn curtains of the FLDS Church, one of the most secretive religious groups in the United States. The story Carolyn Jessop tells is so weird and shocking that one hesitates to believe a sect like this, with 10,000 polygamous followers, could really exist in 21st-century America. But Jessop’s courageous, heart-wrenching account is absolutely factual. This riveting book reminds us that truth can indeed be much, much stranger than fiction."
—Jon Krakauer, Author of Under the Banner of Heaven, Into Thin Air, and Into the Wild
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5.0 out of 5 stars You just HAVE to read this. She deserves to have her story's read. All the women she represents do., Dec 3 2007
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Annie Brodeur (Montréal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escape (Hardcover)
This book is a window open on a world we don't really want to think about, but should. Polygamy still thrives in parts of the US and Canada, despite what most people assume. In an extremely closed community, Colorado City-Hildale, a woman is taught from infancy that the world at large (of which their knowledge is more than limited, it's along the lines of inexistent) is not only doomed, it's also evil because it doesn't practice The Principle. Here lies the core of their faith: being a plural wife is the highest fate there is. That knowledge is combined with the practice of 'perfect faith through perfect obedience' to her husband who, if he wants will pull her through the veil of the kingdom of God where her soul would live as one God's chosen. That one day the one mighty and strong would come and God's chosen would live through a thousand years of peace.

That's what Carolyn Jessop was brought up to believe.

That is not what she found. Reality was that if a woman doesn't keep sweet and isn't in perfect harmony with her husband and sister wives and isn't perfectly obedient to her husband and the favorite wife that woman is considered rebellious and is scorned by the community. That in such cases, every bad thing that came her way is God's way of punishing her. That a woman who isn't favoured (sexually, of course) would lead a miserable life. That a woman without a womb that produces babies is NOTHING. She isn't seen, She isn't heard, She isn't believed. She just isn't.

And that is the life you get to read about here. Simply, without frills, theatrics or writers tricks, we get the life of an amazingly strong, brave, resilient woman.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read, Mar 11 2012
This review is from: Escape (Paperback)
What an eye-opener. Who guessed that slavery is still practiced in the US (and Canada).
Teach young people early enough not to think and they will believe anything. I think it ranks up there with 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Dennisovich'.
I have also read 'Triumph', her second book, equally fascinating.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating Read, Jun 6 2008
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Suzanne Taylor "AiresNight" (Central Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escape (Hardcover)
I purchased this book as I have always been interested in multi-wive families and this book most certainly provided a good read. Carolyn went through so much during her time trying to be loyal to her faith.
I typically don't read much, but this book really snagged me and I would think it would do the same for just about anyone who has read it. I doubt you will be dissapointed.
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