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The celestial wife : a novel / Leslie Howard.

by Howard, Leslie.

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Simon & Schuster Canada, 2024.

Mormons -- Fiction.

Arranged marriage -- Fiction.

Polygamy -- Fiction.

Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.

9781982182403 (trade pbk.)

350 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes reading group guide.

Includes bibliographical references.

"A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist community and comes of age in the tumultuous 1960s in this captivating novel inspired by shockingly true events. 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the Canada-US border despite Bishop Thorsen's warning that the outside world is full of sin. According to the Principle, the only way to enter the celestial kingdom is through plural marriage. While the boys are taught to work in the lucrative sawmill that supports their enclave, Daisy and her best friend, Brighten, are instructed to keep sweet and wait for Placement -- the day the bishop will choose a husband for them. But Daisy wants to be more than a sister-wife and a mother. So when she is placed with a man forty years her senior, she makes the daring decision to flee Redemption. Years later, Daisy has a job and a group of trustworthy friends. Emboldened by the ideas of the feminist and counterculture movements, she is freer than she has ever been -- until Brighten reaches out with a cry for help and Daisy's past comes hurtling back. But to save the women she left behind, Daisy must risk her newfound independence and return to Redemption, where hellfire surely awaits. For readers of Emma Clines The Girls and Ami McKays The Virgin Cure comes an arresting coming-of-age novel about a fearless young girls fight for freedom at a time of great historic change."--Publisher.

Historical fiction.

Canadian fiction

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