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Jeffs, Rachel.
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Jeffs, Rachel.
Jeffs, Warren, 1955- -- Family.
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Forced marriage -- United States.
Teenage marriage -- United States.
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Abused wives -- Biography.
Polygamy -- United States.
Mormon women -- United States -- Biography.
Mormon fundamentalism.
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Jeffs, Rachel.
Jeffs, Rachel.
Jeffs, Warren, 1955- -- Family.
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Forced marriage -- United States.
Teenage marriage -- United States.
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Abused wives -- Biography.
Polygamy -- United States.
Mormon women -- United States -- Biography.
Mormon fundamentalism.
MARC Display
Breaking
free
:
how
I
escaped
polygamy
, the
FLDS
cult
, and
my
father
,
Warren
Jeffs
/ Rachel
Jeffs
.
by
Jeffs
, Rachel.
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2017.
Call #:
LP 289.334 J47b
Subjects
Jeffs
, Rachel.
Jeffs
,
Warren
, 1955- -- Family.
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Forced marriage -- United States.
Teenage marriage -- United States.
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Abused wives -- Biography.
Polygamy
-- United States.
Mormon women -- United States -- Biography.
Mormon fundamentalism.
ISBN:
9780062692825 (pbk.)
Edition:
First HarperLuxe large print edition.
Description:
viii, 386 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"ln this searing memoir of resilience and redemption, Rachel
Jeffs
- daughter of
Warren
Jeffs
, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - writes about her life inside, and escape from, a dangerous
cult
that still holds thousands in its thrall. Rachel
Jeffs
grew up at her
father
's side as he attained power and ultimate control of the
FLDS
Church, a strict patriarchal culture where the women are subordinate to the men, and everyone is at the mercy of an increasingly unstable Prophet. Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law,
Warren
Jeffs
established a
cult
in which members are brainwashed to do his bidding; underage girls are married to men they don't know; parents are separated from their children; and people are cast out forever at the Prophet's merest whim. Even after the FBI placed
Warren
Jeffs
on its Ten Most Wanted List and he received a life sentence for child sexual assault,
Jeffs
's iron grip on the church remains firm and his edicts to his followers grow increasingly restrictive and bizarre. A stunning look at life inside this notorious
cult
from the unique perspective of being both the favorite of
Warren
Jeffs
's more than fifty children and the object of his most depraved 'revelations.' Compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in 'houses of hiding' as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel -
Jeffs
's first plural daughter by the second of his more than seventy wives - eventually faced a terrible decision: should she stay in this hell, or should she leave everything and everyone she'd ever known? A story of faith, abuse, and courage,
Breaking
Free
is both an expose of religious extremism and a portrait of extraordinary resilience."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
Memoirs.
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