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Escape by Carolyn Jessop
5.0

I read this book when it came out and I remember not being able to put it down. I read it in one sitting because it was so disturbing I could not stop reading. It was very eye-opening to me because quite frankly, before I read this book, it was unimaginable to me that situations like this existed in modern-day America.

Even now, I remember a scene where the husband organized this "family trip" that required all the wives to get together and make food for the entire family (over 20 or 30 kids at that point) and they had to take their private BUS and in the hotel where they stayed, the husband wanted to have sex with the author with several children sharing their room! Apparently wives can't say no if they're fundamentalist mormons.

I am writing this now because I'm reminded of this book as I look over Stephanie Sinclair's photography covering life in polygamist America.

http://www.stephaniesinclair.com/polygamyinamerica/