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Sto caricando le informazioni... Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy (2006)di Susan Ray Schmidt
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Eye-opening story of a woman trapped in marriage and poverty with one of the LeBaron polygamists. ( ) This book is one of a few similar books I read back in October on various religions/faiths/cults, and didn't review at the time - mostly because books like this I have to think about for a little while in order to get my thoughts into place. It's always very difficult for me to review a biography or a memoir because I feel like I'm reviewing someone's life and how can anyone do that? Or be so bold as to do that? Susan's story is about how she marries at age 15 to a man twice her age, who already has many wives, and continues to marry and have more and more children. Her husband at times seems evil and cruel, yet at others seems to genuinely care for Susan as much as he is able - which isn't much, considering all the other wives, children, and demands on his attention. He (I feel bad, I can't remember her husband's name) continually puts his faith, his brothers, and himself before any of his wives, including Susan the so called favorite wife. That being said, Susan does a great job showing you her life and her horrors, but letting the reader draw their own conclusions. She ends up leaving her husband and takes her kids with her, makes a few mistakes but ends up happily married at the end. Anyone who is interested in learning about other cultures or faiths should read this one. Susan Schmidt offers a harrowing account of the life of a woman born into a Mormon cult. Married to one of the cult's leaders, she speaks of the hardships faced by plural wives and their never ending children while the husbands are off doing other things. Hunger, jealousy, neglect and privation are commonplace for the women belonging to this group with members living in Mexico, America and Canada and often moving between communities in all three countries. When leadership fractures, Susan and her children are thrust into what ultimately becomes an extremely dangerous climate until she is able to remove herself into mainstream life and escape the clutches of the cult. The murders are touched upon, but mostly this is the story of Susan, her life, marriage and subsequent defection. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: She had no choice in the matterâ??none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a shared husband. Susan was fifteen years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaronâ??one of the leaders of a rogue Mormon cult engaged in a blood feud with his brother that, from 1972 to 1988, claimed up to two dozen lives and led one prosecutor to call their descendents a "Lord of the Flies generation." In this gripping and eloquent book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape. Delving more deeply into this mysterious underworld than any previous work, Favorite Wife is a powerful account of the affairs of the heart, coming of age under exceptional circumstances, and the tough choices that are sometimes painfully necessary to preserve human dignity Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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