In Polygamy's Shadow: From a Mormon Childhood to a Life of Choice

FOR MAGGIE RAYNER, conditional love and the threat of violence were the lock on the prison of church and family in which she was raised.

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. She questions why her family eats food from a garbage dump while her father rises in the c...