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So begins this astonishing memoir of life in the family of Utah fundamentalist leader and naturopathic physician Rulon C. Allred. Since polygamy was abolished by manifesto in 1890, this is a story of secrecy and lies, of poverty and imprisonment and government raids. When raids threatened, the families were forced to scatter from their pastoral compound in Salt Lake City to the deserts of Mexico or the wilds of Montana. To follow the Lord's plan as dictated by the Principle, the human cost was huge. Eventually murder in its cruelest form entered when members of a rival fundamentalist group assassinated the author's father.Dorothy Solomon, monogamous herself, broke from the fundamentalist group because she yearned for equality and could not reconcile the laws of God (as practiced by polygamists) with the vastly different laws of the state. This poignant account chronicles her brave quest for personal identity.… (mais)
I found this to be a very open and honest memoir. Now that does not mean that I believe that Solomon is giving the whole unpolished truth but I believe that to the best of her ability, she is telling the truth. Solomon talks about how hard it is to be honest about what her family is, was, will be, and even where they are going. She talks about how the first thing the children in the family learn to do is lie to outsiders. The world on the other side of the fence is evil and out to get you. She talks about how hard it was to learn that was not true. This is more than just one woman's memoir of growing up in polygamy but how her family started in polygamy. She traces her family from Europe to the America's on both sides. She gives records about her grandfathers and grandmothers. She also follows her siblings lives as much as she can. Solomon is an outsider to her life now. She is seen as the devil's seed and wants to lead others into hell. When she talks about that, I felt her sorrow that her family cannot understand her. If you are looking for an interesting memoir, give this one a try.
I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library. ( )
This was another in my private series on people who lived at the same time as me but in very different situations. the author was a child in a polygamous family living outside the law in the southwest US. Not so well written but It is fascinating how people can live in such atypical cultures and not question why (of course this author did).
I saw this on the discount table at the half price book store, and after reading the "Banner" book, thought I would try this. One woman's story of growing up as the child of a man with 7 wives. She has mixed feelings about her life - loving her father, but being forced to live as outlaws, seeing her various aunts contend with jealously, pain, poverty, so that the men in this particular fundamentalist Mormon cult could fulfill their own fantasies of being a member of the 'priesthood'. ( )
I read this after seeing her snippets in the Big Love backmatter. It's a heartbreaking read, fascinating and painful too the way that she still can't really bring herself to say much of anything really bad about her father even as she hints at some of his less savory activities. ( )
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This book is dedicated to the children, shapers of the future, especially Denise, Layla, Jeff, and Laurie and their children
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Originally published as Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy; later republished as Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up In Polygamy. Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk is a substantial rewriting of Solomon's earlier memoir, In My Father's House, which Solomon said in the prefatory matter to Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk, "no longer adequately (see more) represents me." It "chronicled my life as I perceived it until then."
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So begins this astonishing memoir of life in the family of Utah fundamentalist leader and naturopathic physician Rulon C. Allred. Since polygamy was abolished by manifesto in 1890, this is a story of secrecy and lies, of poverty and imprisonment and government raids. When raids threatened, the families were forced to scatter from their pastoral compound in Salt Lake City to the deserts of Mexico or the wilds of Montana. To follow the Lord's plan as dictated by the Principle, the human cost was huge. Eventually murder in its cruelest form entered when members of a rival fundamentalist group assassinated the author's father.Dorothy Solomon, monogamous herself, broke from the fundamentalist group because she yearned for equality and could not reconcile the laws of God (as practiced by polygamists) with the vastly different laws of the state. This poignant account chronicles her brave quest for personal identity.
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I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library. (