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Describes the author's childhood in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, her forced marriage to her abusive cousin at fourteen, how she managed to break free, and her testimony against the sect's leader, Warren Jeffs.
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<p>“Both creepy…and quite moving.”<br>—<em>New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.”<br>—<em>People</em></p><p><em>Stolen Innocence</em> is the gripping <em>New York Times</em> bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith.<br></p>
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