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Escape : A Memoir by Jessop, Carolyn, Palmer, Laura 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?

Author

Jessop, Carolyn, Palmer, Laura

Publisher

Random House, Inc.;Broadway Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780767928472

Category

religious

Subjects

Memoir, Christian, Philosophy

Rating

3.96 / 5 (28,900 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14