In My Father's House: A Memoir of Polygamy"Before Big Love, before Eldorado, a groundbreaking memoir explored polygamy, not with outrage but with honesty and grace. In 1984, when polygamous groups knew little but the fear and pain of secrecy and hiding, Dorothy Allred Solomon, the twenty-eighth of forty-eight children, went public with her family's story." "Descended from five generations of Mormon polygamy, Solomon evokes the fervor and dedication that bound the Allreds to "living the Principle." She vividly renders the persecution and poverty she knew as a child, the joyous awe of a father's too-rare presence, and an abiding hunger for autonomy. Confronting the paradox of a faith that seals loved ones as families for eternity but casts them as outlaws in the here and now, she traces the events that culminated in her father's 1977 assassination, a tragedy that rocked all Utah." "Now, more than a quarter century later, Solomon revisits her story in a new preface and epilogue and in light of recent events that continue to rivet attention and spotlight our national struggle for understanding and fairness."--BOOK JACKET. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 54
Page 43
... wives . Long before I was actually told , I sensed the immense importance at- tached to each wife's place in the family . The system was partly based on the sequence of marriage to my father . But weak or selfless personalities suffered ...
... wives . Long before I was actually told , I sensed the immense importance at- tached to each wife's place in the family . The system was partly based on the sequence of marriage to my father . But weak or selfless personalities suffered ...
Page 230
... wives seemed fortunate , and the wives of men in the group - kind , predict- able men with steady incomes and stable morals - seemed luckier still . My mother reported that a feeling of competition had developed be- tween my father and ...
... wives seemed fortunate , and the wives of men in the group - kind , predict- able men with steady incomes and stable morals - seemed luckier still . My mother reported that a feeling of competition had developed be- tween my father and ...
Page 242
... wives , for some members of the group held that the man with most wives was most blessed and most ca- pable . Joseph Smith himself had married somewhere around forty women , taking even wives of his counselors , on the premise that he ...
... wives , for some members of the group held that the man with most wives was most blessed and most ca- pable . Joseph Smith himself had married somewhere around forty women , taking even wives of his counselors , on the premise that he ...
Common terms and phrases
Allred asked Aunt Gerda Aunt Lisa Aunt Marion Aunt Navida Aunt Rachel Aunt Sarah baby bedroom began blessing Book of Mormon boys breath Brian Brother Musser called Church Daddy dark door dream Ervil Ervil LeBaron eyes face father fear feel felt fundamentalist gazed girl Grandfather grinned hair hand head heart Isaac Jake Jeanne Joseph Smith kiss kitchen knew LeBaron live looked Lord Mama married Mexico monogamy Mormon morning mother mouth never night nodded pinochle plural marriage polygamist polygamy priesthood Principle remembered Rulon Salt Lake Salt Lake City Saul Saul's seemed shook silence sisters smiled someone spoke stared stay stood stopped suddenly talk tell temple garments things thought told took turned Uncle Owen Utah voice waited Warren Jeffs watched whispered white house wife wives woman women wondered words young