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(More customer reviews)Mary Mackert tells a poignant and powerful story about her life in Mormon polygamy. The story is presented as a reflection of her life- she was born and raised in a polygamous family and she married into one. The reflection takes place during a time when she had been abducted and held captive in a bedroom after she had first attempted to leave the group. The story gives the reader a view of polygamy from the inside, and it describes a closed society that few Amercans would imagine exists in our midst. It does,and has deep roots in Mormonism and its history. Her story is important reading, especially at a time when another oppressive polygamous culture on the other side of the world (radical fundamentalist Islam) has wreaked such havoc and caused such suffering. Her story is true, and her book is also very readable. It gets a "thumbs up" from me.
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This is the most unique story written about modern day polygamy and chronicles the teenage years and sixteen-year marriage of the author. Mary Mackert was born into a family with a history rich in the traditions of fundamental Mormonism. The author shares her private thoughts and feelings as a seventeen-year-old bride facing an arranged marriage to a forty-nine-year-old man that has five other wives. The forbidden love she has for a young man displeases her parents. Obedience and submission to her parents in all things is required for her to see heaven. While her young sweetheart is on a mission she succumbs to the pressures of her family and resigns herself to a marriage of religious duty to a man older than her father. She pressures her father to hurry the marriage arrangements for her true love will return and she cannot face him. She cannot look into his eyes and say that she does not love him. Witness the sorrow and grief of her wedding day. Experience the struggles of her sixteen-year marriage that spawned her courage to flee from this religious bondage. Two days after leaving her husband, she is abducted and locked in her bedroom. During the day-and-a-half she is a prisoner, her husband's attempts to persuade her to return include pleading, preaching, condemnation, and threats of blood atonement execution for her supposed indiscretions. The Sixth of Seven Wives is an inspiring account of one woman's courage to flee from the secret society of her birth and enter the world she'd been taught to fear to obtain a better life for her children.
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