I've almost finished reading "Escape" by Carolyn Jessop for Book Club. It's Jessop's story about escaping a polygamous marriage and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints. She was able to escape this cult-like "church" with her 8 children. This book chronicles the horrifying events of physical and emotional abuse that occur in this community. Dear Darling and I have been talking about the recent news articles that, once again, bring these issues to our attention. It's difficult to... Read Full Story
From Publishers Weekly Seventeen years after being forced into a polygamous marriage, Jessop escaped from the cultlike Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints with her eight children. She recounts the horrid events that led her to break free from the oppressive world she knew and how she has managed to survive since escaping, despite threats and legal battles with her husband and the Church. Though sometimes her retelling overflows with colorful foreshadowing and commentary on how... Read Full Story
Escape
Listened to this in audiobook form
by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer
I had started listening to this book about a week before authorities raided the Yearning For Zion Ranch (YFZ Ranch) in El Dorado, Texas. I wasn’t very far into it when I heard the first radio report of the raid. I quickly put two and two together and realized that the book I was reading (I call listening to an audiobook “reading” it) was in fact about what was quickly taking over the national news! And take... Read Full Story
ELDORADO, Texas (AP) — Sect leaders at a polygamist compound in West Texas refused Saturday to let authorities search a temple for a teenage girl whose report of abuse led to the raid, and authorities said they were preparing "for the worst." If no agreement is reached with sect leaders, authorities will forcibly remove the sect's followers "as peaceably as possible," Allison Palmer, a prosecutor in Tom Green County, told the San Angelo Standard-Times. Medical workers are being sent "in case... Read Full Story
Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Carolyn Jessop". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article... Read Full Story
I just finished reading “ Escape ” by Carolyn Jessop! Other than the Alex Cross Series by James Patterson, it is rare that I make time to finish a book so, the fact that I read this one means a lot!
It is a sort of a hard read…difficult in content and a little drawn in a few spots but, it was one that I had to finish! The story is just that gripping! It was like a textbook told in first-person which is my preferred way to hear about something. Someone else’s therapeutic literature that... Read Full Story
