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The Polygamist’s Daughter

Written by: Anna LeBaron, Leslie Wilson - contributor
Narrated by: Anna LeBaron
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"My father had more than 50 children."

So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult - a radical branch of Mormonism - Anna and her siblings were constantly on the run with the other sister-wives. Often starving and always desperate, the children lived in terror. Even though there were dozens of them together, Anna always felt alone.

She escaped when she was 13 - but the nightmare was far from over.

A shocking true story of murder, fear, and betrayal, The Polygamist's Daughter is also the heart-cry of a fatherless girl and her search for love, faith, and a safe place to call home.

©2017 Anna LeBaron (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Slow and a little to repetitive

I understand that this is a memoir, but I found it poorly written. While I sympathize with Anna’s traumatic upbringing, the writing and narration does not draw in the audience. There’s to much time spent in the eyes of a young child, while her insight as an adult would have made this more bearable.

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Just "okay"

The story seemed to drag on a little too long. The narrator's voice was a little too sing-songy for me - I like more of a dry, realistic reading. The tone didn't match the narration a lot of time. Great voice for children's book narration! Just my opinion however:)

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Fascinating with a few issues

Anna’s life was fascinating, it was especially interesting to see a cult from her childhood and teen perspectives. I’ve heard stores about cults but they usually focus around the leader, so I appreciate Anna for sharing this and the incredible healing she’s done and it strength it has taken. I like the epilogue about how her mother will never truly understand, very relatable. I also related to her being a chameleon, and even some of her religious discussion even though I am not.

It was interesting that she framed herself as the “polygamists daughter” and generally had a poor view of polygamy. This disagreed with me since I think there are healthy versions if polygamy and stories like this give it a bad representation. The version practiced by Anna’s family was undoubtedly harmful though, I just found it odd that she framed the harm through polygamy and not the cult.

I like hearing a memoir from the author, but I felt like the reading was slow, especially the dialogue, almost like a children’s book was being read.

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  • Fde
  • 2023-08-27

interesting!

I found this book interesting to listen too. It was a good listen! it kept me engaged for most of it.

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Heartrending story

What a heartrending story of the daughter of a polygamist and murderer. Her strength as she searches for a life of her own is beautiful. I wish her continued happiness. ❤️‍🩹

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My fist intro into polygamy.

Interesting story. Some parts drew me in and others not so much. I didn’t know much about that lifestyle and so this is a good intro to a child being born into polygamy.

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  • 2019-08-30

It's about changing cults, not leaving one

1 - story has interesting bits, but it's about selling you on the idea of god, not actually about leaving a cult. She just traded in one for another.
2 - She should have had somebody else read the story - cadence issues, pronunciation issues with certain words, and bad voice acting.
3 - this could have been so powerful. And instead, it's really not.

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Amazing read!

I absolutely loved this book and the reader (the author) was absolutely fantastic. I couldn’t put it down.

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Mediocre Memoir

This is a frustratingly boring reminiscence. Anna LeBaron grew up in a strict polygamous cult (a radical offshoot of the Mormon church).. living as a fugitive & expected as a teenager to grow up a "sister-wife" to one of her father's followers. One would expect some unique considered perspectives - but LeBaron (guided by co-author Leslie Wilson) rather writes her memories in the voice of an innocent child who has no idea what the adults are doing (why the FBI is after them, for example). She inexplicably adheres to day-to-day angst over mean kids at school, embarrassment over being too poor for nice clothes on picture day, and needing glasses.
Instead of coupling a retrospective critical exposé of her father's criminal outrages with her upbringing "on-the-run" from FLDS leadership & the authorities, LeBaron gives us juvenile recollections of being sent with a handful of pesos shopping for beans, playing card games with her sisters, and endless similar banal mundanities.
The layered flapjack cake they baked for her on her 10th birthday may have been seminal for Ms. LeBaron, but her readers are forgiven if they start yawning. Her father's arrest by Mexican authorities, extradition for ordering multiple murders, and mysterious death in prison is quite a bit more interesting, imo (repeatedly saying "I had no idea why they were after us. I just knew we had to move again" while talking about things like that time she got scared watching 'The Exorcist' - and expecting her readers to be on the edge of their seats - is ridiculous). While listening to this audiobook, there were multiple times that I found myself saying - out loud - "Oh my God.. WHO CARES!!!"
This book is a shining example of a "Missed Opportunity".

Unfortunately, enlisting LeBaron to read her own work just adds to the "Ho-Hum" status of 'The Polygamist's Daughter'. She's not a terrible reader, mind you - exhibiting adequate diction, timbre, and cadence - but her voice-acting is distinctly amateurish and she is clearly reading a text open on her lap. Blackstone Audio Inc. should have insisted on a professional - less mechanical - reader.

I rate this offering 3 stars out of 10. It gets moderately better after an adult Anna leaves the cult, faces a 'Goodfellas'-styled massacre of co-conspirators, and starts providing a little bit of Christian Apologetics, but never grabs the reader's attention. Even for free, the book is a slog.. paying a Credit for it would be criminal.

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Authentic

Thank you for your vulnerability and sharing your story with us. Your testimony is powerful. I’m really happy to see your healing progress and your freedom with Jesus Christ!

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