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Escape

Carolyn Jessop

Hardcover | Pages: 413 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 35218 Users | 4539 Reviews

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Original Title:	Escape
ISBN:	0767927567 (ISBN13: 9780767927567)
Edition Language:	English

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The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy. Carolyn’s every move was dictated by her husband’s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse—at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife’s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name. Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. 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. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.

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Title	:	Escape
Author	:	Carolyn Jessop
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 413 pages
Published	:	October 16th 2007 by Broadway Books
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Religion. Biography Memoir. Cults

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It is as I finish this book and write this review that federal agents are serving search and arrest warrants at the Fundamental Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS) current compound in El Dorado, TX. Escape is written by a former FLDS member who recently escaped a polygamous marriage in Colorado City, UT with her 8 children. She testified in last year's trial against their "prophet" Warren Jeffs (though this trial is not covered in the book) which resulted in his state conviction and a

I have a strange obsession with the FLDS. I really can't help myself. They REALLY BELIEVE in magical underwear; underwear with magical, protective qualities. Blows my mind. They believe that having multiple wives will get you into heaven - where those lucky wives will continue to serve their husbands for all eternity! Eek! They believe all sorts of wonky things that I see as wonky because I was not born into it, so, from the outside, that stuff just seems crazy jacked up. Really jacked up. So

This book opened my eyes to how things are so different and challenging. It really makes you think that maybe you don't have it so bad. It drew me in, I felt like that I was there with her. I really enjoyed this book. I think that it will stay with me for a long time.

All right. We're going an even three on this one.I finished Escape a few days ago and felt a little confused about my feelings over this book. I even mentioned this in a phone conversation with another writer-friend.The story is compelling. It would be compelling if it were fiction; the fact that it's true takes it somewhat beyond compelling and into horrifying territory. The FLDS "church" is perpetrating human rights atrocities on American soil, and the government has, until very recent years,

I'm reading this book again. Sometimes it contradicts in some places and it gets repetitive but the main thing to remember is WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE HAVE TO STAY IN THESE STUPID ASS CULTS?I reckon they are brain washed into them, but it's so warped! Children are supposed to be gifts from God but you smack them around and beat them. Women have no choice and get stuck marrying men they don't want to marry. It's not like the men have it any better, but at least they don't have to bow to some jerk



I am not even halfway through this book and I am going to give it high marks already for being one of those books that you cannot put down. It is exceedingly appealing to the tiniest crumb of voyeur that you have in you, that which might be interested in polygamists, spouse abuse (not only husband-to-wife, but also wife-to-wife), weird clothing, weird sex, and just freaky shit in general. I race from page to page thinking, "That cannot have happened!" and "In this day and age?" and "Women,