Full name: Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

Author: Irene Spencer Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Religion Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781599957197 9781400155941 1599957191 1400155940

IRENE SPENCER grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family- the thirteenth of thirty-one children- so it was no surprise that she found herself, at sixteen years of age, in a plural marriage, sharing her husband with a half sister. Enduring abject poverty, living in isolation, and suffering the neglect of a husband with divided loyalties created unbearable conditions. Yet Irene managed to overcome these obstacles to seek a life that she believed would be better for her and her children. She made a bold step into the "outside world" and into a freedom she never knew existed. The details of her harrowing experience will appall, astonish, and in the end, greatly inspire. This dramatic story reveals how far religion can be stretched and abused, and how one woman and her children found their way into truth and redemption. Similar books: Lost Boy by Brent W. Jeffs Escape by Carolyn Jessop Triumph by Carolyn Jessop Favorite Wife by Susan Ray Schmidt Leaving the Saints by Martha Beck Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall Church of Lies by Flora Jessop The Witness Wore Red by Rebecca Musser The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper Holy Ghost Girl by Donna M. Johnson I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman Wildflower by Drew Barrymore Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman Called Out of Darkness by Anne Rice Troublemaker by Leah Remini Nearing Home by Billy Graham I Can Only Imagine by Bart Millard Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber Barking to the Choir by Gregory Boyle