![]() What makes it hard to talk about is just how outrageous and horrifying the experience of this woman truly was.Ĭarolyn Jessop was born in to a polygamist family as part of the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), a fundamentalist splinter group of the mainstream Mormon church. Jessop’s style is easy to digest and it was a quick read – I found myself reading it while walking from class to class, from work to home, from the gym to the car…it was literally like I couldn’t put it down. It’s well-written, the kind of memoir I like, focusing on the perception of events and making clear what was later retold or what gaps were filled in. And it’s not because the book isn’t good. ![]() ![]() Coming up with something to say about Carolyn Jessop’s Escape is harder to do than I imagined. ![]()
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