The same thing forces Kyra's father to acquiesce to an incestuous marriage for his daughter. And so we can see that her prison bars aren't the fences around the compound at all they're the threat of separation. It's not Stockholm syndrome Kyra understands the hypocrisy of the Prophet perfectly well. Lynch Williams juxtaposes the reader's shock at the environment in which Kyra lives with Kyra's strong love for her family. Should Kyra try to run away with Joshua? What would happen to her family if she did? And even if she could, does she have the courage? And her clandestine meetings with Joshua Johnson have shown her what love could really be like. Her secret visits to borrow books from the Ironton County Mobile Library on Wheels have shown her a different world. Prophet Childs announces that she is to marry her sixty-year-old uncle. Adolescent boys are driven off, and the Prophet seems to be choosing younger and younger girls to marry older and older men. His father had been Prophet before him, but since his father's death and Prophet Childs' accession, things have taken a turn for the worse. She lives on a polygamist compound run by Prophet Childs. Thirteen-year-old Kyra has one father, three mothers, and twenty siblings - yes, twenty - with another two on the way. It's shocking but sensitive and riveting read, deftly handled. Summary: Intense and claustrophic look at polygamist cults in America.
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