Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
“Both creepy…and quite moving.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.”
—People
Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith.
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Written 6/13/08
Good book- real story of the author's growing up in a religious sect (FLDS). She eventually leaves and has a good life. She testified against the learder Warren Jeffs. It was interesting learning about these women and children inside these communities. They are so frightened of not going to heaven that they submit to all types of torture, from rape and underage marriage, to multiple wives and abandoning their own children- all in the nam of God.
Good book- real story of the author's growing up in a religious sect (FLDS). She eventually leaves and has a good life. She testified against the learder Warren Jeffs. It was interesting learning about these women and children inside these communities. They are so frightened of not going to heaven that they submit to all types of torture, from rape and underage marriage, to multiple wives and abandoning their own children- all in the nam of God.
I love a memoir about an ex-cult member. But this one didn't hit me the right way. I think it's because I have heard Wall family's story before. It was a bit longer than it needed to be.
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