Full name: Triumph: Life After the Cult-A Survivor's Lessons

Author: Carolyn Jessop Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780307590701 0307590704

Carolyn Jessop's second book after Escape which was a raging success. This is a good, but sad, read of life for Carolyn in the years after her escape from FLDS, an extremist Mormon sect where she was married off to Merril Jessop, one of the cults leading authoritarian figues. Carolyn fled with her 8 children to avoid who two eldest daughters (aged 14 & 12) being married off to men, some more than 50 years their senior.Escape, the previous book, is more about what happened within the sect, whereas this one is about the first years after she got out. All of her anger and frustration came to a head when the FBI finally stormed the Texan compound of the group and rescued the 300+ children. Ultimately this was not a successful act but personally it started the ball rolling for Carolyn. In Triumph Carolyn talks of her fears, her love for her family and the difficulties she faces through poverty, homelessness and the fight to break all strings attached to FLDS, including being properly compensated and dealing with a daughter who returns to the cult. As with so many of these reads, it is frustrating and harrowing to read of the impotence of legal systems, the red tape and the ultimate letdowns people like Carolyn have to face. But she is one strong cookie. Similar books: Lost Boy by Brent W. Jeffs Escape by Carolyn Jessop The Witness Wore Red by Rebecca Musser Church of Lies by Flora Jessop Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall Favorite Wife by Susan Ray Schmidt Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill When Men Become Gods by Stephen Singular Leaving the Saints by Martha Beck The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott My Life In Orange by Tim Guest Cut Me Loose by Leah Vincent