Jo V. (jovan) reviewed on 4/4/2010 + 301 more book reviews

A more intimate view of FLDS and the evils of polygamy than "Under the Banner of Heaven." Though it is well worth reading Carolyn Jessop's story as an example of courage and determination, I hope people also begin to get an understanding of how overwhelming this type of brainwashing is. You cannot convince most people who've lived with this sort of thing that there's another way to see the world. Even Carloyn Jessop, intelligent, college-educated, and with her exposure to people from "outside" who were kinder to her than her own "family" could not conceive of leaving the world she was raised in until her situation deteriorated to the point that even she saw her life was in danger and that her daughters would be married off to men 40, 50, or even 60 years their senior. That she spent so many years living with the abuse she did is not the true tragedy here; it's that so few women in her world can even imagine wanting to escape.

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