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Hardcover The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir Book

ISBN: 1250077699

ISBN13: 9781250077691

The Sound of Gravel

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A New York Times bestseller, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult."A haunting, harrowing testament to survival." -- People Magazine"An addictive chronicle of a polygamist community." -- New York Magazine Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can only ascend to Heaven by entering into polygamous marriages and giving birth to as many children as possible. After Ruth's father--the man who had been the founding prophet of the colony--is brutally murdered by his brother in a bid for church power, her mother remarries, becoming the second wife of another faithful congregant. In need of government assistance and supplemental income, Ruth and her siblings are carted back and forth between Mexico and the United States, where her mother collects welfare and her step-father works a variety of odd jobs. Ruth comes to love the time she spends in the States, realizing that perhaps the community into which she was born is not the right one for her. As Ruth begins to doubt her family's beliefs and question her mother's choices, she struggles to balance her fierce love for her siblings with her determination to forge a better life for herself. Recounted from the innocent and hopeful perspective of a child, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of a girl fighting for peace and love. This is an intimate, gripping book resonant with triumph, courage, and resilience. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 4 stars
Gripping real life

I read the first couple of chapters & put the book down. I picked it up yesterday and finished the entire 342 pages. Brought back many flashbacks of my younger life as our lives were very similar. Ruthie deals with abandonment, depression, incest, death, criminal activity and was raising her younger siblings by the age of 14. Once she was freed from the morman LeBaron colony in Mexico she, along with her siblings, began to...

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