Today's Nonfiction is on The Polygamist's Daughter: A Memior by Anna LeBaron. It is 320 pages long and is published by Tyndale House Publishers. The cover has a censored picture of the author as a child. The intended reader is someone who is interested in the lives of those who grew up and lived in polygamist households. There is mild foul language, no sex, and talk of violence it in this memoir. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the dust jacket- My father had thirteen wives and more than fifty children . . .
This is the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. Ervil's criminal activity kept Anna and her siblings constantly on the run from the FBI. Often starving, the children lived in a perpetual state of fear--and despite their numbers, Anna always felt alone. Would she ever find a place she truly belonged? Would she ever be anything other than the polygamist's daughter?
Filled with murder, fear, and betrayal, The Polygamist's Daughter is the harrowing, heart-wrenching story of a fatherless girl and her unwavering search for love, faith, and a place to call home.
Review- A heart-rending account about growing-up in a polygamist household and all the dangers that brings with it. LaBaron grew up afraid and unloved by the family she was born into. Her mother was too rapped up in her father and his wishes, the other family members were just trying to survive, and her siblings did not have the emotional strength to give her what her parents should have. Most of this memoir is very her early childhood as she moved and tried to get enough to eat. It was very hard to read about hungry children, children being abused, and people being murdered. LaBaron finds and uses her faith to help over-come the trauma of her past to have better future. It is a moving memoir about surviving and finding life after trauma.
I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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