Title: Stolen Innocence
Author: Elissa Wall
Published: 2008
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 3 out of 5
I love to read books about women who have overcome oppression and abuse. Last year I read three books of FLDS escapees including 'Escape' by Carolyn Jessop. It is hard to believe even in this time and age, people are brainwashed and abused in the name of religion.
Elissa writes about her polygamist family and childhood. She is ordered to marry her first cousin when she was 14 years old, whom she despises. Not knowing what comes after marriage, she is abused by her husband and gets pregnant, suffers miscarriages. She meets another FLDS member and falls in love with him. After Warren Jeffs was captured, she fights FLDS in court. All along she hopes that she would get out of FLDS, but extremely scared to do so.
It was quite interesting for me to read that her parents were converts to FLDS. I was unable to understand an educated man like him was brainwashed into FLDS! She talks about others in the community who she says knew things were wrong and why did not they take any action?
I am glad she has overcome the abuse and hard times and now leading a good life. But somehow her story left a lot of questions unanswered.
Favorite lines from the book :
Author: Elissa Wall
Published: 2008
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 3 out of 5
I love to read books about women who have overcome oppression and abuse. Last year I read three books of FLDS escapees including 'Escape' by Carolyn Jessop. It is hard to believe even in this time and age, people are brainwashed and abused in the name of religion.
Elissa writes about her polygamist family and childhood. She is ordered to marry her first cousin when she was 14 years old, whom she despises. Not knowing what comes after marriage, she is abused by her husband and gets pregnant, suffers miscarriages. She meets another FLDS member and falls in love with him. After Warren Jeffs was captured, she fights FLDS in court. All along she hopes that she would get out of FLDS, but extremely scared to do so.
It was quite interesting for me to read that her parents were converts to FLDS. I was unable to understand an educated man like him was brainwashed into FLDS! She talks about others in the community who she says knew things were wrong and why did not they take any action?
I am glad she has overcome the abuse and hard times and now leading a good life. But somehow her story left a lot of questions unanswered.
Favorite lines from the book :
- Evil flourishes when good men do nothing. - EDMUND BURKE
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