Escape by Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Escape
Book Review: 6th Century People In A 21st Century America
Summary: 5 Stars
It is hard to believe this was written in the United States in the 21st Century. This book will illustrate internal dynamics within polygamous settings not imaginable to those of us from without. Just one example being what it is like to be a 17 year old girl who is told, "Congratulations, you are to be married in two days to the 82 year old Prophet." And marriages among the FLDS are not merely for life, but for all eternity (you cannot escape even by dying). Or suppose you are beaten my your husband but cannot report the beating to the police because the police are also FLDS. This is but a taste of the contents of this book. It is an eye-opening read.
Book Review: A "MUST" Read
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so glad I read this book. It was facinating and almost unbelievable. I walked away with more of an understanding of this culture and why all the wives don't just "up and leave". This is a very complex issue and provided lots of food for thought.Book Review: A Book About Far More than Polygamy
Summary: 5 Stars
"Escape" has had a more profound impact on me than perhaps any book in recent memory. This is not just a book about a fundamentalist religion and its abuse of women. Her experiences in the FLDS provide a roadmap for how dogma of any kind can so quickly be used by the powerful against the powerless. Her description of a self-referential faith as a control mechanism has analogs in both the religious and secular worlds.
My only criticism of the book might be that she did not succeed in explaining how mind control within the FLDS community was so much more powerful than physical control. Why did she stay for so long in the face of such abuse? Why didn't she reach out to those in the medical profession that could have helped her? I know why, but as I was reading her book I kept thinking how those who were raised in modern America would not.
For those readers that do not come out of a fundamentalist upbringing, it may be impossible to ever fully understand Carolyn's actions. This does not, however, invalidate her story. It rings true to me, and hopefully will to all those who read it.
Book Review: A Bunch of Unruly Children
Summary: 2 Stars
I gave this book 2 stars. I am half-way thru it and am about ready to pitch it. I truly wish Carolyn Jessup the best, and a happy life, but I just don't want to read anymore. The wives in the household she married into acted worse than kindergarten kids. Bickering, tattling, sulking, pouting, making scenes in public. It got tiresome to read. And I found the complaints becoming too repetitious after awhile. And- although I didn't finish the book, I am puzzled. This is supposed to be a religious cult, yet in the half that I read, there was no mention of church, prayer, sermons. They were put here on earth to do good works, but all they did was worry about their standing in the community. That was the women. There was no mention of good works which the men did. The men were cruel--- but then, so were the women. I am going to keep the book and I might finish it sometime in the future. But after reading about their trip to Hawaii, I got so disgusted I didn't want to read anymore.
Book Review: A MUST READ
Summary: 5 Stars
An incredible well written true story. This women is an inspriation for all women of abuse, wether it be physical or mental.