Stolen Innocence - My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage

Zusatztext "Wall's story couldn't be more timely. Her descriptions of the polygamous sect's rigidity are shocking! but what's most fascinating is the immensely likeable author's struggle to reconcile her longing for happiness with her terror of it's consequences." Informationen zum Autor Elissa Wall is a former member of the FLDS church who was forced into marriage at age fourteen. She left the FLDS at age eighteen and she currently resides with her two children and her husband, Lamont. Lisa Pulitzer is a former correspondent for the New York Times andcoauthor of more than a dozen nonfiction titles, including the New York Times bestsellers Stolen Innocence , Imperfect Justice , and Mob Daughter . Klappentext In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs had forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of this closed community and the lengths that Jeffs went to control the women in it. Now, in this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells the incredible and inspirational story of her time in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), detailing how she emerged from its confines to help bring one of America's most notorious criminals to justice. Zusammenfassung “Both creepy…and quite moving.” — New York Times Book Review “Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.” — People Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith. ...

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Pulitzer, Pulitzer Lisa, Elissa Wall, Elissa Pulitzer Wall, Wall Elissa
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.03.2012
• EAN: 9780061628030
• ISBN: 978-0-06-162803-0
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; True Crime, Biography: general, Memoirs, Christianity, History of Religion, Social, group or collective psychology, History of the Americas, The Americas, Biography: religious and spiritual, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Biography: historical, political and military, Agnosticism and atheism, True crime: serial killers and murderers, TRUE CRIME: General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, HISTORY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Religious, RELIGION: ATHEISM, TRUE CRIME: Murder / General, RELIGION: Christianity / History, TRUE CRIME: Historical, RELIGION: Cults, Denominations of American origin