Escape by Laura Palmer, Carolyn Jessop

413 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir religion dark emotional slow-paced

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The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged mar...

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emotional 78%
informative 58%
dark 56%
sad 52%
inspiring 50%
tense 43%
reflective 34%
challenging 30%
hopeful 28%
adventurous 2%

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slow 34%
fast 11%

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