
Church of Lies
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Narrateur(s):
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Eve Bianco
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Auteur(s):
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Flora Jessop
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Paul T. Brown
À propos de cet audio
From the Preface:
"My name is Flora Jessop. I've been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, and I'd like to think they're right too. If I am a hero, maybe it's because every time I can play a part in saving a child or a woman from a life of servitude and degradation, I'm saving a little piece of me, too.
I was one of 28 children born to my dad and his three wives. Indoctrinated to believe that the outside world was evil, and that I resided among the righteous, I was destined to marry a man chosen for me by the Prophet. I would then live in harmony with my sister-wives, bear many children, and obey and serve my future husband in this life and throughout eternity. But my innocence didn't last long. While still a child, I understood that the church of the righteous was nothing but a church of lies.
When I was eight years old my father sexually molested me for the first time, raping me when I was 12. I tried to kill myself. Beaten, molested, taunted, and abused by family members alleging they only wanted to save my soul became a daily routine, I ran from this abuse more than once in my early teens - even attempting to cross the desert on foot. My family hunted me down. I thought government agencies would provide me safety if I reported my father. Instead, police and social services colluded with the FLDS to return me to my family and I ended up back inside polygamy, right where I started."
Flora goes on from there to tell the dramatic true story of how she ultimately escaped and has been fighting against frustrating obstacles with hard-fought successes in rescuing women and children from the FLDS. It's a story you can't put down.
©2009 Flora Jessop and Paul T. Brown (P)2013 Audible, Inc.The struggle for justice makes a difference
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Heartbreaking & Inspiring
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The author is courageous and committed.
I wish there was a sequel.
Altruistic Bravery
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Eye Opening
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powerful
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raw, insightful, couldn't turn it off
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I learned a lot!
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I have little doubt that the deadpan delivery from narrator Eve Bianco contributes to the hilarity too, however - reading the most ridiculous descriptions with an incongruous matter-of-fact tone and a level of gravitas that *should* have been appropriate given the subject matter. I hold Bianco in esteem for not bursting into giggles while reading text like "My father pulled out his floppy thing - stroking it and then beating it hard until some white stuff came out".
If you can get this oddly chuckleworthy exposé as a "free" selection, do so. It's a great diversion for a couple of quiet afternoons. If Audible asks for a Credit, however, you can do much better than this 3.5/10-star offering.
Unintentionally Funny
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