Stolen innocence :my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs /Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer.

Name/Title

Stolen innocence :my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs /Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer.

Description

Prologue -- Part 1: -- 1: New mother -- 2: Growing up and keeping sweet -- 3: Good priesthood children -- 4: In light and truth -- 5: Rise of Warren -- 6: Out of control -- 7: Reassignment -- 8: Preparing for Zion -- 9: Revelation is made -- 10: Celestial law -- 11: Word of the prophet -- 12: Man and wife -- 13: All alone -- Part 2: -- 14: Survival begins -- 15: Destruction is upon us -- 16: Death comes to short creek -- 17: False prophet -- 18: Refuge in Canada -- 19: Nowhere to run -- 20: Pair of headlights -- 21: Promise not to tell -- 22: Story like mine -- 23: Love at last -- 24: Choosing my future -- Part 3: -- 25: New beginnings -- 26: Coming forward -- 27: Captured -- 28: Facing Warren -- 29: Trial begins -- 30: End is in sight -- 31: I am free -- Epilogue -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments. x, 438 p., [16] p. of plates :col.ill., ports. (chiefly col.) ;24 cm.

Book Details

Author

Wall, Elissa.

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

circa 2008

Publication Subjects

Forced marriage--United States. Abused wives--United States--Biography. Marriage--Religious aspects--Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mormons--United States--Biography. Polygamy--United States. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Wall, Elissa. Jeffs, Warren,1955-

Call No.

HQ994 .W1871 2008

ISBN

9780061628016, 0061628018