
Stolen Innocence
My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
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Renée Raudman
Now, in this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells the incredible story of how she emerged from the confines of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and helped bring one of America's most notorious criminals to justice. Offering a child's perspective on life in the FLDS, Wall discusses her tumultuous youth, explaining how her family's turbulent past intersected with her strong will and identified her as a girl who needed to be controlled through marriage. Detailing how Warren Jeffs's influence over the church twisted its already rigid beliefs in dangerous new directions, Wall portrays the inescapable mind-set and unrelenting pressure that forced her to wed despite her repeated protests that she was too young.
Once she was married, Wall's childhood shattered as she was obligated to follow Jeffs's directives and submit to her husband in "mind, body, and soul." With little money and no knowledge of the outside world, she was trapped and forced to endure the pain and abuse of her loveless relationship. Yet even in those bleak times, she retained a sliver of hope that one day she would find a way out, and one snowy night that came in the form of a rugged stranger named Lamont Barlow. Their chance encounter set in motion a friendship and eventual romance that gave her the strength she needed to break free from her past and sever the chains of the church. But though she was out of the FLDS, Wall would still have to face Jeffs---this time in court.
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A shocking and emotional telling of betrayal
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The story is well told and fairly well organized. The narrator's childish voice really works because the author was such a young girl when the events occured.
If you have an interest in the lives of women and children in the FLDS I reccomend this book to you!
You thought your teens were rough....
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Amazing story
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I wasn’t keen on the reader’s voice. The half crying as she performed sad parts of the book made it feel melodramatic and took away from the biting reality of the events.
It’s jarring how easy an abused person can grow to normalize things
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Cultism of the FLDS Finally Understood
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Elisa and her strength
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Loved reading a story about the strength of a determined woman!
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Excellent story, poor narration
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wonderful tale
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very educational
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