Wives and Sisters
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ISBN: 0312334281 / Publisher: St. Martin's Press, October 2004
Years after her best friend disappears, Allison Jensen struggles to understand why the leaders of her Mormon community refuse to provide answers, and in the wake of her father's tyranny, a brutal attack, and her neighbors' cover-up of a sexual predator'sactivities, she struggles to break free.
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When Allison Jensen was six, she and her best friend, Cindy, were playing in the woods near her home. One moment her friend was beside her; the next, she was gone. When no leads emerged, Cindy was given up for dead.Now, years later, still haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend, Allison suffers a brutal attack that forces her to try to fill in the gaps of a patchwork memory. Even as a young adult she can get no answers from the Mormon community in which she lives. She is trapped in a world where she does not fit, surrounded by patriarchs who feed her half-truths in an attempt to placate her, and where daughters and wives are at the mercy of a man who tyrannizes and torments as the self-appointed messenger of God.Desperate to escape the closed world of the Mormon church and determined to bring her attacker to justice, Allison finds herself on a collision course with powerful community leaders as they cover up the tracks of a sexual predator. She must uncover the truth before they find her and keep her from piecing together the tragic past that has haunted her life.
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