"Escape" book about polygamy

::waves hello:: I'm back! Hi! Oh, you didn't know I was gone? Heh, that's okay. I was off having fun.

So!  I'm reading (on books on tape) "Escape" by Carolyn Jessop and it's fascinating. She was the 4th wife of Merril Jessop, was assigned to him in marriage at age 17, managed to get a college degree & create a true self while having 8 children and putting up with all kinds of BS and sometimes outright abuse at the hands of her husband and some of her sister-wives before fleeing the FLDS with all 8 of her children.

 

( Lots of links to articles, other books, info about polygamy under the link... )

 

Heigl to star in movie based on ex-FLDS member's book

Deseret News Originally published Wednesday, June 11, 2008

"Gray's Anatomy" actress Katherine Heigl will star in a feature film adaptation of Carolyn Jessop's best-selling book "Escape," about her life within the Fundamentalist LDS Church.  The Hollywood-industry newspaper Variety reported Tuesday that Heigl will also produce the film. Jessop's book, about her life as the fourth wife of FLDS leader Merrill Jessop and her decision to leave the polygamous sect, has been a huge bestseller.  It is not the only film in development about the FLDS Church.  Variety previously reported that "Stolen Innocence" would be made into a movie.  That book was written by Elissa Wall, the witness in the case against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.