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His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy |
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A true story of violent fanaticism By Susan Ray Schmidt Publisher - Kassidy Lane Publishing LLC List Price $24.95 Trade Paperback 434 pages with color photos ISBN: 097797300X EAN: 9780977973002 Publication Date: June 15, 2006 Available from The HOPE Organization. Order Susan Ray Schmidt's book online from The HOPE Organization. |
His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy |
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His Favorite Wife details the experiences of a young girl raised in a fundamentalist polygamist sect. At the age of 14, Susan becomes the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron, one of the sect leaders. Woven with jealousies, and heartache, her story leads the reader through a murderous power struggle between the LeBaron brothers. Polygamist women are taught that obedience and unquestioning acceptance of polygamy will assure them a crown in heaven as a goddess. Few search out truth for themselves. Living a cloistered, sheltered life and giving birth to many children, traps them. Susan's book deals with these issues, as she too, was one of these women.
Cascading with well-developed characters, this true story will capture your soul and imagination as the author reveals how a group of kind-hearted, sincere people are led to embrace this controversial lifestyle in their pursuit of the highest degree of glory. Laced with surprising brush-strokes of humor, this heart-rending saga will take its readers on a journey that outsiders whisper of and shudder about. It answers the question that a polygamist's wife is asked countless times: How can you tolerate sharing your husband? | |
| Excerpt from the book | |
| Where was the excitement I had anticipated as the wife of a leader in God's church? We were supposed to be an army for the Lord, and yet babies, back-breaking work, and never enough money to go around was the lot of a polygamist's wife. All around me were poverty-stricken homes filled with lonely women and children, living for the scattered moments when our husbands could find time for a hurried visit home. And yet the time Verlan spent at home was the most frustrating time of all. Knowing he was close, yet sleeping in another wife’s bed only blocks away, was the purest form of torture. The irony of it all was the fact that when he was with me, I felt sorry for the others. | |
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A truly amazing story of heartache and triumph! Courageous and eloquent, Susan shares her life in, and escape from a destructive polygamous cult. A spiritually motivating account about the affairs of a young heart, coming of age, and tough choices. I laughed, cried, and was awestruck; but most of all, inspired. The reader will be left wanting more... Every man-young or old, married or single-should read this book. Susan will lead you deep into the inner sanctum of a woman's perspective on love, on life and on happiness. You'll gain an instant and newfound respect for the women in your life-your wife, your mother, your grandmother...A riveting story. I couldn't put it down. His Favorite Wife penetrates more deeply into the mysteries of polygamy and family life than any previous autobiography. And what a family it was! Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking story you'll ever read, Susan Ray Schmidt warms you with her personality as you are pulled deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring. This page turner bears the hallmarks of a true classic. As someone who is a former Mormon and who has studied the nightmare of polygamy for years, especially the LeBaron clan, I was fascinated by Susan's story. It is well told and heart rending. Again and again I marvel at how people survive the nightmare and wind up in the Light!" | |
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