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Escape : A Memoir by Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer [Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer] is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is Escape : A Memoir about?

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 own peril. For in the FLDS, a wife’s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held i

Who reads Escape : A Memoir?

It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.

Common subject areas: religion, theology.

Author
Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer [Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer]
Publisher
Random House, Inc.;Broadway Books
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9780767927567
Category
religious
Subjects
Christian, Memoir, Philosophy
Rating
3.96 / 5 (28,900 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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