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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
 

Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

by Irene Spencer

Irene Spencer did as she felt God
commanded in marrying her
brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming
his second wife. When the
government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous
Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona,
Irene and her family fled to
Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch.
They lived in squalor and desolate
conditions in the Mexican desert
with... (read more)

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JJ
  • Rated 4 stars

“One thing sets this book apart from every other book written by polygamist wives... Irene Spencer didn't quit when it got hard. Most of the books on this topic are written by women who barely got their feet wet in a polygamist marriage. Irene Spencer lived the life of a polygamist wife. Her WHOLE life! This story is amazing. It is a story of faith and perseverance through unbelievable hardship, pain, and depression.

If you are in the least curious about why...”

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Carol C
  • Rated 2 stars

“The premise sounded interesting: “my life as a polygamist’s wife”. I read the whole book, and while it was informative, it was also somewhat tedious and repetitive. After all, how interesting is the life of polygamist’s wife? - Somewhat! At the end of the book, she writes that she had eliminated the sections about a war between the fundamentalist factions – they were actually killing each other - and I though, too bad! That would have been really interesting! All of this is...”

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  • WittyreaderLI

    wittyreaderli said:

    “This book was quite a read! Irene is a Mormon who was raised in a polygamist family. She decides her only life course is to practice polgamy as well. She has a guy who is madly in love with her and she wavers between him and Verlan, a polygamist, ultimately choosing Verlan. She then becomes his second wife, eventually having over 10 children, and becoming just two in a long stream of 9 wives. This book is a shocking, interesting, and strange read. I am not a religious person so I really didn't understand a lot of what her choices were, but still, the shock value makes this a worthwhile read!”

    posted Thursday, December 20 2007
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