Set in the 1950s and 60s on the West Coast of British Columbia, In Polygamy’s Shadow: From a Mormon Childhood to a Life of Choice chronicles Maggie’s personal struggle to keep herself from being devoured by the Mormon church and her parents’ unrelenting loyalty to it.
Introduction -- Genesis -- Complicated Sorrow - 2004 -- We Lived in a Tool Shed - 1950s -- Without -- Funerals -- Hunting Down Horses -- He's My Brother -- On a Roll -- Missionaries -- The Sawmill -- Mormon Underwear -- The house on the Hill -- Baptism -- Secrets -- Leaving Gibsons -- The house on River Road -- The Noose Tightens -- Fast Sunday -- Ticket to Heaven -- Polygamy -- Excommunicated -- The Eyes of the Curch -- Pornography -- Free Agency? -- No More Children -- Butter and Bread -- Predator -- The Pool Hall -- Pimped Out -- Temptation -- Homecoming -- The Getaway -- The Trickster -- End-run - 2004 -- Exodus - 2010 -- The Family Today -- With Special Thanks -- The Author.
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