Name: Escape - Carolyn Jessop
Brand: Carolyn Jessop
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Jessop offers this dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and her courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The dramatic true story of one woman's life inside the ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect featured in Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey--and her courageous flight to freedom with her eight children nWith a new epilogue by the author - Escape provides an astonishing look behind the tightly drawn curtains of the FLDS church, one of the most secretive religious groups in the United States. A courageous, heart-wrenching account.--Jon Krakauer n nWhen 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. 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 was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. In 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to