TRIUMPH BY CAROLYN JESSOP WITH LAURA PALMER, PENGUIN, $32.95.
Remember those pasty-faced, pinafore-wearing, high-haired women, who came out of the polygamist Yearning For Zion ranch in Texas, after it was raided over allegations of child abuse? Well, Carolyn Jessop was once one of those women.
A sixth-generation polygamist, Carolyn realised at the age of 35, after bearing eight children to her 67-year-old husband, that her church and her community weren’t everything she’d been told they were since birth. Her first book, Escape, recounted her dramatic flight from the cult. Triumph examines how she came to develop her own sense of right and wrong, stayed true to herself and grew inner-strength in the confines of a misogynist claustrophobic community.
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