| Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy Contributor(s): Solomon, Dorothy Allred (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393325776 ISBN-13: 9780393325775 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: In this astonishing and poignant memoir, Solomon--daughter of Utah fundamentalist leader and polygamist Rulon C. Allred and his fourth plural wife, 28th of Allred's 48 children--tells of a childhood beset by secrecy and lies, by poverty, imprisonment, and government raids. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Religious - Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon) - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004010234 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.56" W x 8.22" (0.85 lbs) 399 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I am the daughter of my father's fourth plural wife, twenty-eighth of forty-eight children--a middle kid, you might say. So begins this astonishing and poignant 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. Originally published in hardcover under the title Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk. |
Contributor Bio(s): Solomon, Dorothy Allred: - Dorothy Allred Solomon lives in Park City, Utah. She is the recipient of several awards from the Utah Arts Council and a Governor's Media Award for Excellence. |