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| Escape | 
 enlarge | Authors: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95 (58.73 RON)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  317 reviews
Sales Rank: 6988
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0767927567
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.3092
EAN: 9780767927567
ASIN: 0767927567
Publication Date: October 16, 2007
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 No words can describe... November 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
See what happens when you give a girl an education? I trust the FLDS organization learned its lesson with Carolyn Jessop and has forbidden college education for females. God only knows what would happen if more women became educated. They would begin to think, for heavens sake! Escape is equal parts abomination and fascination. The thought that there is even a shred of truth to this book and that the FLDS still thrives is criminal. Some might say that only in our great country could and should such religious freedoms be allowed. I say that is taking the notion of freedom to the extreme. Though stylistically mediocre, Escape is an important book for women everywhere who chain themselves, by their own free will, to patriarchal prisons. Such limitations may seem safe at the start, even dreamily without accountability. But in the end, the slave will either go mad or free. Women are human afterall.
 Escape November 4, 2008
This has to be one of the best non fiction stories i have ever read, cannot beleive in this century that this horrible abuse of women and children is allowed to exist.
Those poor girls have never had a chance to know what a normal life should be like. Brave Carolyn for doing what she did.
A Book About Far More than Polygamy October 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Escape" has had a more profound impact on me than perhaps any book in recent memory. This is not just a book about a fundamentalist religion and its abuse of women. Her experiences in the FLDS provide a roadmap for how dogma of any kind can so quickly be used by the powerful against the powerless. Her description of a self-referential faith as a control mechanism has analogs in both the religious and secular worlds.
My only criticism of the book might be that she did not succeed in explaining how mind control within the FLDS community was so much more powerful than physical control. Why did she stay for so long in the face of such abuse? Why didn't she reach out to those in the medical profession that could have helped her? I know why, but as I was reading her book I kept thinking how those who were raised in modern America would not.
For those readers that do not come out of a fundamentalist upbringing, it may be impossible to ever fully understand Carolyn's actions. This does not, however, invalidate her story. It rings true to me, and hopefully will to all those who read it.
Why is this abuse tolerated today in America? October 26, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
So they wear old-fashioned clothes, weird hairstyles, and share a husband among "sister wives," why should we care? It's their choice, right?
Astonishing to learn of the hatefulness and abuse inherent in this misogynist society. Young girls are married off with little notice and without their consent; little boys work long hours in sometimes dangerous conditions, then are banished for imaginary "sins" before they reach adulthood so all the girls can be "assigned" to a select few old men.
Wives are sexual slaves, work horses, and baby factories, frantically competing for position in the home, shunned to a back bedroom when younger wives arrive. They dare not leave; they are brainwashed from birth that their very salvation depends on their compliance with the will of the "prophet." They also have few skills, little education, no money, and risk losing their children; as well as being cut off from their parents, families, and lifelong friends, banned by the community as apostates who have rejected the Heavenly Father.
Although most comply with their own abuse (can you say "Stockholm Syndrome?"), some, like Carolyn, must be coerced. Basic necessities are withheld or their children abused unless they cooperate. Carolyn's son was literally denied shoes until she adopted the required pose of being "sweetly compliant" to her "priesthood head." Wives and children are rewarded for spying on each other and gain favor and status by reporting misdeeds for punishment. Child and spousal abuse keep everyone in line.
And we pay for it all, as only the first wife is legal; the others are unmarried "single mothers" who are not supported by their kids' dad (despite having a child by him every year), and collect welfare and free government-paid medical care for their enormous broods. Men take the money and rule the roost; no competition or weird clothes for them. The favored wife is elevated; others are condemned to raising the many children, endless cleaning, sewing, cooking, laundering; while performing unpaid labor for the husband's businesses, working the fields, even tearfully facing the media when directed (a la YFZ Ranch in Texas), while the men kick back and live it up on our dime. Any wife who doesn't like it is replaced, her children assigned to another mother.
Despite being a 6th generation polygamist, Carolyn Jessop has the intelligence to see behind the veil and the courage to break free from the abuse. Only a teenager when she was forced to become the 4th wife of 50-year old Merril Jessop, Carolyn describes her abuse by the other wives (he eventually has 13) and being ignored and disdained by her husband, except when he regularly forces himself on her to keep her continually pregnant, thereby raising his status in the community.
She bears 8 of his 50+ children, nearly losing her life in the process. Like other FLDS women, her worthiness is measured *only* by constant childbearing, backbreaking labor, and submission to every whim of her husband, who, she later learns, only married her to circumvent a lawsuit Carolyn's father was considering after Jessop crossed him in a business deal.
Since the FLDS self-proclaimed "prophet," Warren Jeffs, is serving a long prison term for accomplice to rape (regarding an underage girl he forced into marriage), Carolyn's former husband, Merril Jessop, runs the YFZ Ranch in Texas; some feel he may be the new leader of the FLDS. Find out what he's really like, the tyranny, abuse, violence, disorder and hatred within his own home and the community he leads, and what is happening to the many women and children trapped in this life with no freedom, no education, and eternal damnation unless they obey.
Carolyn Jessop's book is a page-turner, fast-paced and fascinating. You will be rooting for her, amazed at her audacity, amused by her cleverness, and thrilled when she and her children finally break the cycle with their daring escape to freedom.
The book ESCAPE by Carolyn Jessop October 24, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I wanted a used copy of Escape, in good condition and fast shipping.
The book was exactly as described by the seller...a signature (not the author) was on the fly leaf, other wise it was in top drawer condition.
The period for shipping was too long....I needed it sooner. I emailed the seller and the shipping was expedited for me.
The seller ws Kim Carlos of It's A Good Day Books
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