His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 445 pages
• Published by: Kassidy Lane Publishing LLC
• Edition: 1st Edition June 15, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 097797300X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0977973002
• Book Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Review
A truly amazing story of heartache and triumph! -- Sheri Lauritsen, Independent bookstore owner

A truly amazing story of heartache and triumph! Courageous and eloquent, Susan shares her life in, and escape from a destructive polygamous cult. A spiritually motivating account about the affairs of a young heart, coming of age, and tough choices. I laughed, cried, and was awestruck; but most of all, inspired. The reader will be left wanting more --Daryl Hunt

Every man-young or old, married or single-should read this book. A riveting story! -- Daryl Hunt, Instructor, Computer Graphics design

His Favorite Wife is the heart-stopping, inspirational narrative of a courageous fifteen year-old girl who becomes the sixth wife in a polygamous marriage. Cascading with well-developed characters, this true story will capture your soul and imagination as the author reveals how a group of kind-hearted, sincere people are led to embrace this controversial lifestyle in their pursuit of the highest degree of glory. Laced with surprising brush-strokes of humor, this heart-rending saga will take its readers on a journey that outsiders whisper of and shudder about. It answers the question that a polygamist's wife is asked countless times: How can you tolerate sharing your husband? In North America today there are over thirty thousand polygamists. Many of them lead secret lives in their attempt to hide from society and U.S. laws. Their women are taught that obedience, unquestioning acceptance of polygamy, and giving birth to huge families of children to follow in their parent's footsteps, will assure them a celestial crown. Few search out truth for themselves, but trustingly follow their prophet. Susan's book deals with this head-in-the-sand ignorance. She too, was one of these women. --S. J. Lauritsen

His Favorite Wife penetrates more deeply into the mysteries of polygamy and family life than any previous autobiography. And what a family it was! Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking story you'll ever read, Susan Ray Schmidt warms you with her personality as you are pulled deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring. This page turner bears the hallmarks of a true classic. --Cliff Johnson

This book penetrates more deeply into the mysteries of polygamy and family life than any previous autobiography. -- Cliff Johnson, Author: Wrong Side of the River

Product Description
His Favorite Wife is the heart-stopping, inspirational narrative of a courageous fifteen year-old girl who becomes the sixth wife in a polygamous marriage. Cascading with well-developed characters, this true story will capture your soul and imagination as the author reveals how a group of kind-hearted, sincere people are led to embrace this controversial lifestyle in their pursuit of the highest degree of glory. Laced with surprising brush-strokes of humor, this heart-rending saga will take its readers on a journey that outsiders whisper of and shudder about. It answers the question that a polygamist's wife is asked countless times: How can you tolerate sharing your husband? In North America today there are over thirty thousand polygamists. Many of them lead secret lives in their attempt to hide from society and U.S. laws. Their women are taught that obedience, unquestioning acceptance of polygamy, and giving birth to huge families of children to follow in their parent's footsteps, will assure them a celestial crown. Few search out truth for themselves, but trustingly follow their prophet. Susan's book deals with this head-in-the-sand ignorance. She too, was one of these women.

Reader Reviews
This is a wonderful book, very well written and engrossing. This woman's life is or has been so far removed from anything that I've ever known that it almost seems unbelievable - but after living in Utah for a few years I know that every detail is absolutely correct. I've always wondered how intelligent people could be fooled into living this lifestyle and this book makes it clear. The people in the book are complex, her busband is an awful man with no concept or seeming concern for his wives and children; he makes them live in proverty and fend for themselves - but as strange as it sounds he believes that he is a loving man with everyones best interest at heart. He is so totally deluded about his own superiority simply because he is male that he also misses out on real love and family kinship. He is a likeable man - flawed by his own upbringing. I was not expecting the criminal element of the book, the murders in God's name - this group, or parts of it turned out to be the Polygamist Mafia. Truly a wonderful book and so full of action and odd characters, I'd love to see it as a movie.