A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes
her strict, polygamist community and comes of age in the tumultuous
1960s in this captivating novel inspired by shockingly true events.
Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep
sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964.
Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small,
isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the
Canada--US border--despite Bishop Thorsen's warning that the
outside world is full of sin. According to the Principle, the only
way to enter the celestial kingdom is through plural marriage.
While the boys are taught to work in the lucrative sawmill that
supports their enclave, Daisy and her best friend, Brighten, are
instructed to keep sweet and wait for Placement--the day the bishop
will choose a husband for them. But Daisy wants to be more than a
sister-wife and a mother. So when she is placed with a man forty
years her senior, she makes the daring decision to flee Redemption.
Years later, Daisy has a job and a group of trustworthy friends.
Emboldened by the ideas of the feminist and counterculture
movements, she is freer than she has ever been...until Brighten
reaches out with a cry for help and Daisy's past comes hurtling
back. But to save the women she left behind, Daisy must risk her
newfound independence and return to Redemption, where hellfire
surely awaits. For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ami
McKay's The Virgin Cure comes an arresting coming-of-age novel
about a fearless young girl's fight for freedom at a time of great
historic change.
General
Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2024 |
Authors: |
Leslie Howard
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-982182-40-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-982182-40-7 |
Barcode: |
9781982182403 |
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