This is the true story of a woman's experience of being the "favorite wife" of her fundamentalist mormon polygamist husband. It was pretty eye opening for me to see what it's like to live in a fundamentalist community with religious leaders who claim to be receiving personal revelation from God on a daily basis, especially when the bulk of their revelation has to do with which 14 year old God has commanded them to marry.

This darling girl was a true believer who would do whatever was asked of her by her Prophet and her religious leaders. She is very candid and exposes her true feelings of falling in love with the older, charismatic religious leader. She is smitten by all the attention and affection that she craves as a teenager.

Once she is married, life quickly changes and she sees the reality of what her life will be like-being one of many wives (more than she realized at the begining of her marriage), living in poverty, dealing with the jealousy and infighting of the other wives, while trying to make sense of the isolation and loneliness that she feels.

The pictures alone, of her with her babies, and all the other young wives with their many babies, are jaw dropping. She is a survivor and tells this amazing story with compassion and honesty. I highly recommend this book.