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Escape / Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer.
Van Pelt Library BX8695 .J47 A3 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jessop, Carolyn, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jessop, Carolyn, 1968-.
- Jessop, Carolyn.
- Latter Day Saint women--Utah--Biography.
- Latter Day Saint women.
- Polygamy.
- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
- Marriage--Religious aspects.
- Marriage.
- Latter Day Saint fundamentalism.
- Utah.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 413 pages : [8] p. of plates ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Broadway Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- Choosing freedom from polygamy over fear, Carolyn Jessop flees her life within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and now tells her harrowing story. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS.
- ISBN:
- 0767927567
- 9780767927567
- OCLC:
- 153581188
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