The Chosen One
by:
Carol Lynch Williams (author)
(author)
A dazzling novel about a young teenager's rebellion from the polygamist cult that would have her become the seventh wife to her 60-year-old uncle.
A dazzling novel about a young teenager's rebellion from the polygamist cult that would have her become the seventh wife to her 60-year-old uncle.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780312555115
Publish date: 2009-05-12
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Family,
Religion,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Abuse,
Fiction
You can read all of my reviews at Alluring Reads.I've never been a religious person though I will admit to being fascinated with the fanatical elements that sometime occur within a religion. The Chosen One definitely falls into that category; it was haunting and shocking. Now, I am not a scholar on ...
It’s a very short, very intense book. Kyra’s pain, confusion, and wavering determination are palpable in the first-person narration. The violence, manipulation, sexual violence, and misogyny inherent in this sort of fundamentalist compound life are vividly but simply portrayed, but it doesn’t make d...
Kyra has three mothers, one father, and twenty brothers and sisters. She lives in a compound led by The Prophet, a man who is in “close communication with God.” Over the years, the compound has become more and more closed off from the outside world. With the fence that was built around the compou...
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