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Escape (2007) (edit title/settings)

by Carolyn Jessop (Author) (edit contributors)

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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. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two... read more

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  • “"For 17 years, I'd lived in a blur of terror and fear."”

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  • FLDS: The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) is one of the largest Mormon Fundamentalist Denominations and one of United States' largest practitioners of polygamy. The FLDS Church came to light in the early twentieth century when its founding members left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The split occurred largely because the Latter Day Saints Church renounced polygamy and its decision to excommunicate its members who would not discontinue the practice.

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Escape. The moment had come. I had been watching and waiting for months. The time was right. I had to act fast and without fear. I could not afford to fail. Nine lives were at stake: those of my eight children and my own.

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  • Emotional Bondage: The ability to control someone's actions by abusing their emotional state.

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  1. Carolyn Jessop (Author)

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  1. Laura Palmer

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Broadway Books
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Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0767927567
Page Count: 413

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