Daphne Bramham
Autor von The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect
Werke von Daphne Bramham
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- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Canada
- Wohnorte
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Beziehungen
- Skinner, John (partner)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- National Newspaper Award (June 2005, for column at Vancouver Sun)
Beyond Borders (2004, for Bountiful B.C. columns)
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- Werke
- 1
- Mitglieder
- 66
- Beliebtheit
- #259,059
- Bewertung
- 3.4
- Rezensionen
- 6
- ISBNs
- 3
This book does focus more on the Canadian FLDS (and leader/prophet Winston Blackmore) than any other I’ve read, so that was interesting to me. I’m in Calgary, Alberta, and though I knew about Bountiful, BC (actually called Lister, which I didn’t know), I did not know that there is a small population of FLDS in Alberta, as well, mostly in/around Cardston. The FLDS is so intertwined, though, that it started with a history, and there is also much about the communities in Utah and Arizona, and of course, about Warren Jeffs.
I have read quite a bit about the FLDS so many names are already familiar to me in that I’ve read some of those memoirs. I know that a few of the Canadian FLDS had a trial wrap up in BC last year, so I’m going to look that up to refresh my memory on what happened there. This book was published in 2008, so things have happened since then (like the trial in BC). I found the second part of the book – the legal stuff – much more interesting than I expected, and found myself even more interested than in the first half of the book; I guess much of that was exasperation and frustration at all the laws they are breaking... and in some cases, flaunting (in addition to polygamy, there is, of course, all kinds of abuse, plus bilking the government (i.e. taxpayers) out of as much money as possible – they need all that extra income to feed their 15+ wives and 70+ children (ok, that might just be Blackmore with that many, but you get the picture)).… (mehr)