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    Escape

    Written by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer

    Narrated by Alison Fraser

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    The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.

    When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband's psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.

    Carolyn's every move was dictated by her husband's whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse-at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife's compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.

    Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop's flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 16, 2007
    ISBN9780739354582
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    • 5/5
      Carolyn Jessop, who grew up in a family that followed the practice of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), found herself at the age of 18, to be the 4th wife of a 50-year-old man. Carolyn shares the unbelievable (but true) details about her childhood through her escape.Wow. I read the YA fiction book on the same topic titled The Chosen One (Williams) at the end of July and became very curious as to how much truth it contained. Escape was a perfect choice to help me determine what was fact or fiction. It turns out that The Chosen One was very much fact, and the whole book could have actually been a memoir of a 13-year-old girl. Shockingly, Escape and The Chosen One were identical in their basic story.I was mesmerized by Carolyn's story. I never wanted to stop listening to it (fabulous narrator) and thought about it when I wasn't. The rumors I heard and, of course, things that I learned about in The Chosen One seemed so crazy that I had a difficult time believing them. Carolyn's story clarified and convinced me of the truth that lies behind those closed doors. What a harrowing, debilitating, repressed existence the followers of the FLDS live. Unfortunately, those born into it don't know anything else and are brainwashed. Carolyn "rebelled." She is a remarkable woman who exhibited strength, courage and determination to save her children and herself from a life of further torment.Originally posted on: Thoughts of Joy
    • 3/5
      I first heard about Mormon fundamentalism when I read the eye-opening (and horrifying) non-fiction book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer. I have since read and reviewed the novel The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff and I’m a big fan of the TV series Big Love. So I figured it was about time I read a book written by someone who grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon community. Escape is the autobiography of a woman who was a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), one of the largest Mormon fundamentalist denominations. At the age of 18, Jessop was forced to marry a 50-year-old man (Merrill Jessop, who is now the de facto leader of the FLDS), with whom she would have eight children over the next 15 years. In 2003, she fled her community with all her children, including a disabled toddler, and was the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a suit involving the FLDS.Carolyn’s story is shocking. Abuse, violence and neglect are common occurrences in her community. Once Warren Jeffs takes over as prophet, things get even worse, and some of the stories she relates are really hard to read. Unfortunately, the writing in this book could have done with more editing. At least twice I had to go back to see if I’d missed something because the storyline was confusing. For example, one minute Jessop’s sister-wife Cathleen was her only ally among her husband’s wives and the next minute she’d grown closer to Tammy than any of the others, without any explanation for this shift. Despite this, I would still recommend this book. It’s not a literary masterpiece, but it is an amazing story told by a courageous woman who “chose freedom over fear” and won.
    • 5/5
      Carolyn Jessop endured seventeen years in an abusive marriage in a polygamist cult known as the FLDS. Seventeen years to a man that she did not love, as one of his then six wives. I cannot begin to comprehend what it is like to live in such an environment, where women are mere possessions, and have no voice.

      Fearing her young daughters would soon be wed to Warren Jeffs, Carolyn found the strength to escape with her eight children, which could have cost her everything.

      It wasn't easy, and Carloyn's hell continued through restraining orders and court hearings until, she was finally granted their freedom.

      My heart breaks for Carolyn because she rescued herself and her children...and upon her 18th birthday, her daughter Betty chose to return to the life that Carolyn worked so hard to escape from.

      I tried googling Carolyn to see if I could find out any more information about her and her family, and found that she found love and remarried. Her ex-husband, Merril Jessop, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison. I could find no current information about the FLDS, or any of Carolyn's sister wives.

      I wish Carolyn and her children much happiness...
    • 5/5
      Excellent Book!
    • 5/5
      the extraordinary story of a woman who was living in a polygamous mormon sect where she had to marry a man decades older than she, had to give birth eight children for him, and after all of this she still had courage escape with all of her children and stand to her own feet. Great read!
    • 2/5
      My mom's book club read this and, knowing of my obsession with Mormons and serial killers (no connection, I promise), she passed it on to me. Jessop has a fascinating story that certainly had to be told, but there is a readable monotone and near unpassionate style to her writing. Furthermore, there isn't ample information on FLDS or its history to satisfy the really curious and well read. Though she often refers to being "brainwashed, " her story feels like she's leaving out the good bits - the notations that put it all in perspective. Perhaps there is fear and denial still overwhelming her ability to speak clearly about her harrowing past.
    • 4/5
      4.5 starsCarolyn Jessop was 35 years old, had 8 kids, and was one of 7 wives of Merrill Jessop when she took the chance to escape, with her kids, from the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) community she was a part of for her entire life. This book tells her story of growing up in the community (or cult, as she later calls it), her escape with her kids, their adjustment to the outside world and the custody battle to hold on to her kids.Wow! Wow! Of course, I've heard about the polygamous sect of the FLDS in the news, but it sounds like it's so much worse that I ever imagined. Listening to this book, I was presented with shock after shock after shock. The abuse that happened - child, spousal and animal abuse... physical, mental and emotional abuse... Not only parent to child, but wife to wife, and child to parent. There were so little freedoms even when she was growing up, it got even worse once Warren Jeffs took over as prophet (initially in his father's name, and moreso after his father died). I already have a few more biographies of former FLDS members on my tbr, and I'm going to try to get to them sooner rather than later.
    • 5/5
      The reader of this book was believable, yet not overly dramatic. This is one of those stories that captures you and keeps a hold of you through the entire telling. It is truly remarkable that Carolyn Jessop not only lived to tell her story but learned to live well. Carolyn Jessops is a true heroine of our era.
    • 4/5
      Wow. This book makes my blood boil. I am so happy that they caught Warren Jeff but those people are so under his spell, they will stay in that sect/cult.

      Very interesting book. Enjoyed it a lot.
    • 4/5
      I am also in the middle of Escape. It is a story about a woman who left the FLDS and sued successfully to keep her children. (she is the first known person to do that.. very few people escape the FLDS and none have ever kept their children.) It gives insight into what they believe, why they believe it and how it effects how they act and react. I saw this book after the whole YFZ ranch debacle and I wanted to know more..

      I finished the book called Escape about FLDS. I am glad she had the strength to leave the cult.. and I hope that her family grows stronger without the influences of what appear to me to be a mad society.
    • 5/5
      Carolyn Jessop's courage and intelligence shine throughout this book. I boggles the mind to think this kind of abuse still takes place in the world, and even more so the unquestioning allegiance to the controllers in the FLDS sect. As they say, "You couldn't make this stuff up." Carolyn Jessop paints a picture of a culture within a cult. It's an amazing story; I had a hard time putting this book down.
    • 5/5
      It's one thing to hear the news reports about Warren Jeffs, the FLDS, and their run ins with the law. It's quite another to read Escape by former FLDS member Carolyn Jessop. Escape provides a personal, rather disturbing glimpse into daily life in one of the nation's most controversial sects. Forced to marry at 18 to a 50 year old man with three wives, Jessop survived 17 years of what can only be described as capivity to a homelife defined by intimidation and power. In addition, Jessop had to struggle with the difficulties of living with several other "sister wives" who were rivals for her husband's attention and favor as well as a large houseful of children, eight of whom were hers. In Escape Jessop also shares what it was like to grow up in a religious sect that was less about true faith and a personal relationship with God and more about ignorance, fear, and domination. In reading this book one understands that the precepts of the FLDS were and are not only cruel to women and children,but to the men as well. Jessop tells us about how her father lost the right to live with his own family when he dared to air dissenting opinions about the way the sect was being run. Reading this book will cause you to shake your head in amazement that such things can take place in one of the most liberated countries on earth.
    • 5/5
      This memoir is dramatic and thrilling!!
    • 5/5
      This was an extremely well written story of this remarkable woman's life. I never knew much about the Mormons or this more extreme branch. The author brought me into her world and let me experience a culture and religion very different from my own.She starts out describing when she was a young child living with her parents. While some of what she described seemed extreme to me ,it was nothing like what was to come. From her unbelievable marriage, to the things her husband put her through, I kept expecting to get to the end of the book and discover it was fiction. It was so foreign to everything I've experienced its hard to believe its true.Her triumph through adversity is very inspiring and hopefully made some change in those states who choose to ignore the abuse without full investigation. I hope it also inspired those who wished to leave as well.This book also offered some background into Warren Jeffs as well who became very well known through the news. It showed yet another side of a man I can barely understand.Before you read this book please prepare yourself to cry, cheer, and experience an entire range of emotions. You can go from one page to the next feeling angry and joyful all at the same time.
    • 4/5
      It is just horrifying to read about what this woman, her children, and her family have been subjected to. This is a fascinating look at what was really going on (and probably still is) in Colorado City, Arizona. The lives of women and anyone opposed to the "prophet" are desparate and with little hope of escape. I am certainly not religious, nor do I agree with why this cult is polygamous. A woman can only get to heaven by serving men well and hoping that he accepts her into his heavenly harem after death? Awful. However, I do think that people should have the right to choose how they live. Maybe I am radical in my views on polygamy. Personally, I think that if everyone involved is happy, who does it hurt? This book is not about a harmonious polygamous community. I think that this book shows that power corrupts. These were not men who were caring for their families and truly believed in the religious aspect of what they were doing. Merril Jessop and Warren Jeffs and the like are not even religious zealots, they are powerful men who wanted more power and control over everything. Including the subjection of everyone around them. Wives, children, family and church members all became people to manipulate. These men are disgusting. Carolyn Jessop is an amazing woman with strength and determination, I wish her all the happiness that her previous life denied her.
    • 4/5
      I can't believe I almost did not buy this book. I read it in three days. I kept wanting to reach in and save her from this horrible life. How can this be happening in this day and age?
    • 2/5
      My mom's book club read this and, knowing of my obsession with Mormons and serial killers (no connection, I promise), she passed it on to me. Jessop has a fascinating story that certainly had to be told, but there is a readable monotone and near unpassionate style to her writing. Furthermore, there isn't ample information on FLDS or its history to satisfy the really curious and well read. Though she often refers to being "brainwashed, " her story feels like she's leaving out the good bits - the notations that put it all in perspective. Perhaps there is fear and denial still overwhelming her ability to speak clearly about her harrowing past.
    • 5/5
      Crazy to think this stuff happens in the USA. These people are ridiculous!
    • 4/5
      This book describes polygamy at it's darkest. The abuse the children and wives in Colorado City experienced made me nauseous at times to read. Carolyn Jessup is a hero in my book for having the courage not only to leave the community, but also to relive her experiences in writing this book.
    • 3/5
      This was a rather amazing account of a life lived in polagamy, it was quite interesting to see the everyday FLDS lifestyle through the eyes of a sister wife. As much as I found it interesting, I just wish that it was written better, in my opinion the story itself was really let down by the writing...on that account it was rather disappointing, however the immense courage shown by Caroline in her escape from the FLDS really does keep you reading. I will read Triumph to see if Caroline achieved the justice she deserved and the normal family life she dreamed for. A good read, but very frustrating at times.
    • 5/5
      The story of Carolyn Jessop who grew up in the FLDS religion and fled from a life of oppression and abuse in to a world she was taught to believe was evil. The conditions she and others endured is unbelievable. Very heart breaking and inspiring story full of hope and fortitude for a better life. Carolyn had an amazing sense of self-determination to survive and free her and her eight children of their demoralized condition.
    • 4/5
      Carolyn Jessop's tale of her life in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints and her escape from abuse and oppression at the hands of her husband and her religion is heartbreaking as well as inspiring. It is depressing to me that people In this day and age and in this country are still living in such a confining and brainwashed society. Ms. Jessop's writing is very good and extremely compelling. My only complaint is that she has a tendency to be repetitive in her explanations of FLDS doctrine, as well as explaining multiple times who people are. It almost seems as if the book came out in a serialized fashion, where all information necessary to the narrative is given, even if it had been mentioned in a previous chapter. I was fascinated by this book, as well as grieved for this woman and her experiences. I would recommend this to any reader of memoirs, as well as students of religion.
    • 4/5
      Another great read for those interested in hearing the story of the FLDS from those who lived within it. Told by a truly courageous woman, who is the first woman in the history of the FLDS to manage to flee and win legal custody of all her children, her story is a powerful one. Definitely worth reading.
    • 4/5
      What to say about this book other than scary???? Seriously, this is one of those books that makes me thank my lucky stars for everything that I have including my parents, family, and the life that I was born into. Sometimes it is as simple as that. And books like this make me remember to appreciate what I have.This is Carolyn Jessop's memoir of growing up and living in the FLDS (otherwise known as Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). The FLDS is a closed off religious group that keep to themselves and their community and are an offshoot of the Morman church. At 18, Carolyn was told that she was meant to marry Merril Jessop and become his third wife. He was thirty-two years older than she was. Carolyn's marriage was an unhappy one that was basically a power struggle between all of Merril's wives with Carolyn caught up in the mix even when she didn't want to be. It would take years before Carolyn would begin to realize that the religion and life that she grew up with might not be the life that she truly wanted. And it would take everything Carolyn had to escape.Wow! That is all I had to say after reading this one. I can't even begin to imagine all of the things that this woman has had to endure...it is just too much. First of all, being told who you are going to marry, having no choice or say in the matter, it is almost too difficult to fathom. And how sad to go into a marriage and know that you may never love the person you are married to. Carolyn's marriage was a constant struggle from the beginning. All of Merril's wives were constantly competing for his attention which just made me a bit sick. Sex and the number of children that a woman had gave them status within their marriage. In other words, the more kids you had in comparison to the other wives gave a woman a better standing in this society and within her "family". Pretty scary in my opinion. Carolyn had no say in the life that she led and was constantly told what she could or couldn't do. And when Warren Jeffs came to power, things in the FLDS got even worse. Carolyn is very frank in the book and shares the reasons why she was content with living there for so long. I mean she grew up thinking that all of this was normal, was taught that the "outside world" was evil and meant for an apocalypse, and that she was one of the "chosen ones" by God. It took her a really long time before she began to think differently and realize that she wanted something else for her and her children. I must say that I think that Carolyn Jessop is an amazing woman! All in all, one of those books that really makes you think. About the life you live and the freedoms that we have. Because not everyone has these freedoms so for me this kind of book makes me appreciate my everyday life just a little bit more.
    • 4/5
      Intriguing and very interesting. Also quite inspiring, considering all the family overcame.
    • 4/5
      It took me a while to get into this book, but Carolyn's account of her life inside the FLDS is harrowing. Being born into such a "belief system" is bizarre enough, but that such a community can exist outside the law for so long is just mind-boggling. Courage and resilience are qualities that abound in Carolyn and there is no doubt that she and her children needed to get out. Whilst she is highly critical of the "prophet", Warren Jeffs, and his cronies (like her former husband) it is clear that she does not hate those she left behind. This is the most admirable thing about Carolyn and also why she did not crumble when they tried to knock her down. Despite everything she is just looking to the future and enjoying her life and her children. Being here in Australia, I don't recall hearing much about the raid on the YFZ ranch, but I was shocked to learn Oprah had gone inside and really found nothing wrong there. That she would even give these people air time AT ALL is beyond me! Loved the book and I look forward to seeing the movie starring Kathryn Heigl if it ever eventuates...
    • 5/5
      This book exhausted me....mentally and emotionally. As I read of what this woman went through, I found myself drained and worn out.I could not put the book down. A compulsively readable story of a young woman, raised in a strict polygamist offshoot of the Mormon church, and how the male hierarchy began slowly and methodically gaining more and more power over the lives of the women and children, and eventually some of the less powerful men as well. The oldest "prophet" died, leaving the highest position open for the son to claim....but in time, the new prophet's rules and regulations began to appear to be based on the whims of his growing madness. Warren Jeffs fanaticism and power caused Carolyn Jessop, fourth wife of Merril Jessop, to realize that her life and the lives of her eight children were in serious jeopardy. Without a complete understanding of the outside world, she knew it was the only chance she and her kids had of survival....the FLDS community was imploding and she took the opportunity when it came, to escape the clutches of the religious cult.Reading of day to day life in the FLDS community, it seemed as though the women were nothing more than baby making machines, under the thumbs of their husbands. They could not do anything without clearing it first with their "priesthood heads". Any money they earned at jobs were transferred into their husbands hands. They were not to argue or question anything their husbands told them to do, no matter how bizarre or outrageous.Carolyn had several life-threatening pregnancies, constant tension between her and her "sister wives", and obstacle after obstacle thrown at her by those in the community that wanted to crush her spirit and stop her growing rebellion against the abuse that she and the children were enduring.Eventually Carolyn managed somehow to get out...but her children continued to be confused and filled with anxiety due to their upbringing, and how they had been brainwashed to believe that anything outside of the FLDS community was of the devil. With time, patience and love, the kids started to come around, with the exception of Betty, who returned to the FLDS.I will never forget this story and especially will never forget the unquenchable spirit of this amazing young woman.
    • 4/5
      A horrifying story, masterfully told. Carolyn was married to a major figure in the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS). She was 18, naive, and totally ignorant of sex. Her husband was 46 years older - she was his 4th wife.The incredible part of this story is the cruelty and dysfunction between the "sister wives," and the total hypocrisy of her husband. I was angry and upset, as I was reading, but completely engrossed. The passage of the years, the increasing isolation and extremism as Warren Jeffs gained power, the multiple sources of stress and abuse, the slow realization that Carolyn needs to do something, and the courage it took to do anything - kept me turning the pages.Anyone who reads this book will understand all too well the actions of the women and children in the wake of the last raid on Warren Jeffs' cult.
    • 5/5
      This woman's story is absolutely incredible! Every woman in the world should read Carolyn Jessop's story. It is difficult to believe that there could be a population in the United States in 2009 that would allow women, children, and animals to be treated this way - let alone all in the name of God!!Carolyn Jessop is a heroine and a courageous leader among women. She makes me proud to be her sister!
    • 4/5
      Carolyn Jessop's story of life in a religious cult and her subsequent escape is riveting and fascinating, right from the beginning. That people live as they do in this cult in our times is sheer madness. Carolyn is so strong to have made it through this experience without losing her sanity - that crazy honeymoon bus trip to San Diego alone would have pushed me over the edge had I been in her place! Read this for a demonstration of courage, strength, and bravery, and to witness Carolyn's unending love for her children and burning desire to live free.