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236 pages ; 23 cm We've watched interesting plural marriages in TV documentaries, read about them in books, and even seen them featured in an HBO series. We've heard daunting stories about young women forced into marrying older men and the admirable journey to escape their way out of the polygamous life they were taught they belonged. We've seen a large family grow on a TLC show, documenting the Mormon religion and discipline from a positive perspective.Today, the Mormon and polygamous culture has shown itself into the limelight more than ever before. This series of seventeen stories focuses on the Barlow family, a family that epitomized the Mormon, polygamous lifestyle. It was led by Albert Barlow, a father of thirty-four children and a husband to three women for over fifty years. The seventeen living daughters of Albert's family here to tell their story. They have seen it all, they have experienced it all.Here we can observe how one lifestyle can branch out to seventeen different perspectives, seventeen different dreams, and seventeen different outcomes
- Author
- Barlow, Barbara author; Webb, Virginia B. (Virginia Barlow), author
- Publisher
- [place of publication not identified]: Scrivener Books
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780989552356
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (741 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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