Celestial - XO Wife The, A Novel by Leslie Howard, 1 Each
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It is1964 and fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption. Situated on the Canada/US border, Bishop Thorsen warns his congregation 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, Daisy and her best friend, Brighten, are instructed to keep sweet and wait for Placementthe day the bishop will choose a husband for them. But Daisy wants to be more than a sister-wife and a mother. When she is placed with a man forty years her older, she makes the daring decision to flee.Years later, Daisy has a job and a group of trustworthy friends. She is freer than she has ever beenuntil Brighten reaches out with a cry for help and Daisys past comes hurtling back. But to save the women she left behind, Daisy must risk her newfound independence and return to Redemption, where difficulty surely awaits.For readers of Emma Clines The Girls and Ami McKays The Virgin Cure comes a new coming-of-age novel about a fearless young girls fight for freedom at a time of great historic change.Product Number: 09781982182403
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It is1964 and fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption. Situated on the Canada/US border, Bishop Thorsen warns his congregation 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, Daisy and her best friend, Brighten, are instructed to keep sweet and wait for Placementthe day the bishop will choose a husband for them. But Daisy wants to be more than a sister-wife and a mother. When she is placed with a man forty years her older, she makes the daring decision to flee.Years later, Daisy has a job and a group of trustworthy friends. She is freer than she has ever beenuntil Brighten reaches out with a cry for help and Daisys past comes hurtling back. But to save the women she left behind, Daisy must risk her newfound independence and return to Redemption, where difficulty surely awaits.For readers of Emma Clines The Girls and Ami McKays The Virgin Cure comes a new coming-of-age novel about a fearless young girls fight for freedom at a time of great historic change.Product Number: 09781982182403