Confession: I picked The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron because it ticked a bunch of categories for my various reading challenges. Not sure how I acquired it in the first place…

LeBaron recounts her childhood and early adult experiences as the child of Ervil LeBaron, the leader of a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group. Ervil LeBaron was imprisoned for life after being found guilty of ordering the murder of his opponents (and died in jail). Murders aside, he was also responsible for orchestrating marriages, many of which included underage girls – this is explored extensively in the book, as Anna and her siblings were moved from house to house, and girls that she knew as ‘sisters’, suddenly became ‘wives’. Continue reading →