New Mormon Books

Between describing horrific episodes of abuse from her own childhood in Colorado City, Ariz., the fundamentalist compound where she was raised, Jessop railed against governments in Utah and Arizona that have not done enough to shut down these cults, in her opinion. “It’s been allowed to go on, because it enjoys the shield of mainstream Mormonism,” she said.

Author takes aim at polygamy
By Tim Sampson
Kerrville TX Daily Times, June 27, 2009.
http://dailytimes.com/story.lasso?ewcd=dd16fa2b81e388a0

When Flora Jessop was 16, she was forced to marry her own cousin. She was forced to do it because a “prophet” told her to. Jessop spent the first 16 years of her life as a prisoner to a fundamentalist sect … [that] alienates its followers from the outside world, practices polygamy and strips women of virtually all autonomy, she said. She chronicled her experience in the memoir “Church of Lies.”

‘Church of Lies’ details woman’s life in FLDS
By Tim Sampson
The Kerrville Daily Times, June 24, 2009
http://dailytimes.com/story.lasso?ewcd=608a5a4d7d5efb59