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The Colony - Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
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On the morning of 4 November 2019, an unassuming caravan of women
and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of
road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and
gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron
and La Mora communities—fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears
broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their religion
outlawed polygamy in the late nineteenth century. The massacre
produced international headlines for weeks and prompted President
Donald Trump to threaten to send in the US Army. In The Colony,
bestselling investigative journalist Sally Denton picks up where
the initial, incomplete reporting on the attacks ended, and delves
into the complex story of the LeBaron clan. Their
homestead—Colonia LeBaron—is a portal into the past, a place
that offers a glimpse of life within a polygamous community on an
arid and dangerous frontier in the mid-1800s, though with
smartphones and machine guns. Rooting her narrative in written
sources as well as interviews with anonymous women from LeBaron
itself, Denton unfolds an epic, disturbing tale that spans the
first polygamist emigrations to Mexico through the LeBarons’
internal blood feud in the 1970s—started by Ervil LeBaron, known
as the “Mormon Manson”—and up to the family’s recent
alliance with the NXIVM sex cult, whose now-imprisoned leader,
Keith Raniere, may have based his practices on the society he
witnessed in Colonia LeBaron. The LeBarons’ tense but peaceful
interactions with Sinaloa deteriorated in the years leading up to
the ambush. LeBaron patriarchs believed they were deliberately
targeted by the cartel. Others suspected that local farmers had
carried out the attacks in response to the LeBarons’ seizure of
water rights for their massive pecan orchards. As Denton approaches
answers to who committed the murders, and why, The Colony
transforms into something more than a crime story. A descendant of
polygamist Mormons herself, Denton explores what drove so many
women over generations to join or remain in a community based on
male supremacy and female servitude. Then and now, these women of
Zion found themselves in an isolated desert, navigating the
often-mysterious complications of plural marriage—and supported,
Denton shows, only by one another. A mesmerising feat of
investigative journalism, The Colony doubles as an unforgettable
account of sisterhood that can flourish in polygamist communities,
against the odds.
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Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Sally Denton
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-09408-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-324-09408-7 |
Barcode: |
9781324094081 |
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