A review by sara_beth_11
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice by Rebecca Musser

4.0

I read this book for the category "Nonfiction Book Dealing With Religion" for the Book Riot 2016 Read Harder Challenge. However, this book is very difficult to categorize! It also deals with topics of feminism and human rights through the unflinching perspective of one woman's lifelong struggle with the abuses in her insular childhood community.

I appreciated Musser's ability to frankly assess the conditions in her fundamentalist church that led to one corrupt man having unprecedented power over thousands of people, particularly women and children. I also admire that Musser's frankness and eye for details is tempered by her emotional plea that readers everywhere do what they can to promote human rights worldwide.