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Biografier
In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.
Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mormon Church was more powerful or terrifying than its leader Warren Jeffs—Rachel’s father.
Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Jeffs arranged marriages between under-age girls and middle-aged and elderly members of his congregation. In 2006, he gained international notoriety when the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted List. Though he is serving a life sentence for child sexual assault, Jeffs’ iron grip on the church remains firm, and his edicts to his followers increasingly restrictive and bizarre.
In Breaking Free, Rachel blows the lid off this taciturn community made famous by John Krakauer’s bestselling Under the Banner of Heaven to offer a harrowing look at her life with Warren Jeffs, and the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered. Sexually assaulted, compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in ""houses of hiding"" as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel, Jeffs’ first plural daughter by his second of more than fifty wives, eventually found the courage to leave the church in 2015. But Breaking Free is not only her story—Rachel’s experiences illuminate those of her family and the countless others who remain trapped in the strange world she left behind.
A shocking and mesmerizing memoir of faith, abuse, courage, and freedom, Breaking Free is an expose of religious extremism and a beacon of hope for anyone trying to overcome personal obstacles.
A Family Tree PDF accopmanies the audiobook.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Lydbog): 9780062694836
Release date
Lydbog: 14. november 2017
4.2
Biografier
In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.
Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mormon Church was more powerful or terrifying than its leader Warren Jeffs—Rachel’s father.
Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Jeffs arranged marriages between under-age girls and middle-aged and elderly members of his congregation. In 2006, he gained international notoriety when the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted List. Though he is serving a life sentence for child sexual assault, Jeffs’ iron grip on the church remains firm, and his edicts to his followers increasingly restrictive and bizarre.
In Breaking Free, Rachel blows the lid off this taciturn community made famous by John Krakauer’s bestselling Under the Banner of Heaven to offer a harrowing look at her life with Warren Jeffs, and the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered. Sexually assaulted, compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in ""houses of hiding"" as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel, Jeffs’ first plural daughter by his second of more than fifty wives, eventually found the courage to leave the church in 2015. But Breaking Free is not only her story—Rachel’s experiences illuminate those of her family and the countless others who remain trapped in the strange world she left behind.
A shocking and mesmerizing memoir of faith, abuse, courage, and freedom, Breaking Free is an expose of religious extremism and a beacon of hope for anyone trying to overcome personal obstacles.
A Family Tree PDF accopmanies the audiobook.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Lydbog): 9780062694836
Release date
Lydbog: 14. november 2017
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Ditte
25. mar. 2020
Puha, det er en grum fortælling. En virkelig gribende historie, jeg har svært ved at bedømme. Kan man kalde sådan en bog for ‘god’, når der fortælles om en pædofilistisk far som tilmed er leder for en kult?Værd at læse
Line
22. sep. 2021
Rigtig god bog, men havde det lidt svært ved hendes “lillepige” stemme
Constance
26. aug. 2023
Har det svært med hendes lille-pige stemme! En bizar sekt.
Fru
8. sep. 2022
Vanvittig historie !
Mette
30. jul. 2022
Frygtelig oplæser gider slet ikke lytte🤮
Henriette
10. jan. 2022
God bog - Men den er meget skræmmende og meget detaljeret. Den giver et uhyggeligt godt indblik i hvad der foregår bag lås og slå
Susanne
16. mar. 2021
Wauw en historie. Kan varmt anbefale denne, hvis man syntes at sekter er spændende.
Helle
16. feb. 2020
En rigtig god bog, især hvis læseren synes det er interessant at få et indblik i hvordan det er at leve i en sekt.
Annie
12. apr. 2022
Virkelig god og spændende bog. oplæseren/ forfatteren har en meget specielt stemme, men når man lige vender sig til den, er det en fantastisk god bog, som giver et godt indblik i en meget skræmmende verden.
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