Daughters Of Zion: A Family's Conversion To Polygamy
by Kim Taylor
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Author: Kim TaylorEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-25
ISBN: 0615257011
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Rogue Hill Publishing LLC
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- ISBN13: 9780615257013
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Daughters Of Zion: A Family's Conversion To Polygamy
Book Review: The Reality of Polygamy Today
Summary: 5 Stars
Mind boggling! This cannot be real! But Daughters of Zion is not fiction. And this is why it is so scary!
On the one hand, Daughters of Zion is an interesting biography of a young girl, raised in a normal mainstream Mormon family in Utah, as she grows up in modern-day Mormon polygamist commune after her family decided to convert to a new brand of Mormonism. Kim's writing style makes you feel like you are sitting at the kitchen table as she tells you about what she did only yesterday. All of her friends and relatives become your friends and relatives, making it easy for the reader to relate to the concept of relatives in a polygamist community.
But more importantly, it is the most candid description of life in a Mormon polygamist commune ever. Told from the eyes of a little girl as she grew up, a child whose own mother was not even a Mormon, allows Kim to put the things she experienced into crystal clear perspective.
Differences between the modern mainstream Mormon Church and those of the traditional Mormon Church condemned by American society become clear. But this is not a book about the 19th century. It is about today! So more importantly, the difference between the contemporary Mormon Church and the few remaining polygamist colonies, both inside the U.S. and those in Mexico and Latin America, are revealed.
Based on this detailed description of the day to day experiences of an innocent girl, it is easy to understand many of the incomprehensible events of the late 20th and 21st centuries which continue to occur sporadically in both the United States and Latin America with increasingly regularity. As I continued to read, my blood went cold as I connected Kim's descriptions to some of America's recent cult-related tragedies.
One final piece of advice. Just when you think Kim is starting to cool down at the end, she isn't. Read to the final end. It will bring you back to Kim's real world.
I give Daughters of Zion 6 stars out of 5!
Summary of Daughters Of Zion: A Family's Conversion To Polygamy
A memoir of misguided faith, unholy violence, and spiritual awakening. An odyssey of mayhem, murder, and tragedy, is what Kim's family unknowingly embarks upon in their quest for a peaceful existence in an unorthodox religious society. It is on a deceptively fine spring day, at the tender age of seven, that Kim is uprooted from her comfortable middle class home in Utah to be moved into a polygamous colony in Mexico. From that day forward her life takes dramatic twists and turns as, one by one, her older sisters become plural wives and Kim herself is eventually courted by the polygamist fathers of some of her good friends. Her relatively peaceful world is shattered when violence erupts within the ranks of the priesthood leaving her sister a widow, and Kim fears for her own life as some of her closest friends become murderers in the name of religion. In the end, her family is devastated by a tragedy of a more insidious evil.Memoirs Books
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