Full name: Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy

Author: Susan Ray Schmidt Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Religion Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9781599214948 1599214946

She had no choice in the matter-none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a shared husband. Susan was fifteen years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron- one of the leaders of a rogue Mormon cult engaged in a blood feud with his brother that, from 1972 to 1988, claimed up to two dozen lives and led one prosecutor to call their descendants a Lord of the Flies generation. In this gripping and eloquent book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape. Delving more deeply into this mysterious underworld than any previous work, Favorite Wife is a powerful account of the affairs of the heart, coming of age under exceptional circumstances, and the tough choices that are sometimes painfully necessary to preserve human dignity. Similar books: Escape by Carolyn Jessop Lost Boy by Brent W. Jeffs Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall The Witness Wore Red by Rebecca Musser Triumph by Carolyn Jessop Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer Church of Lies by Flora Jessop Leaving the Saints by Martha Beck When Men Become Gods by Stephen Singular Troublemaker by Leah Remini The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner Flight to Heaven by Dale Black Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper Waking Up in Heaven by Crystal McVea Girl at the End of the World by Elizabeth Esther The Sacred Journey by Frederick Buechner Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler