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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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我通常对那些情节驱动型的小说比较不耐烦，总觉得它们像是一场快速闪过的烟花表演，绚烂却空洞。但这部作品显然走的是另一条路。它的“慢”是经过深思熟虑的，这种慢不是拖沓，而是一种对细节的尊重，对人物内心世界的精雕细琢。作者花了大量的篇幅去描绘主角在特定环境下的生理反应——心跳的频率、呼吸的节奏，甚至是皮肤上微小的汗毛竖立的感觉。正是这些极其微观的描写，构建了一个无比宏大且真实的心理剧场。举个例子，书中有段描述主角在等待某人到来的场景，全文可能只有几百字，但通过对光线变化、墙上钟摆声的细致捕捉，硬是将一个几分钟的等待，拉伸成了仿佛一个世纪的煎熬。这种对时间感和空间感的掌控力，让我不得不佩服作者的耐心与功力。它更像是一部氛围电影的剧本，画面感极强，每一个场景都仿佛被精心打上了柔光和阴影，非常适合静下心来，细细品味。
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