His Favorite Wife by Susan Ray Schmidt

May 16, 2010 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Kassidy Lane, 2006. 434 pgs. Library. Fifteen-year-old Susan Ray marries Verlan LeBaron after she receives a dream from God telling her this significantly older man already married to five other women is meant to be her husband. Filled with jealous, Susan finds life as the fifth wife in a plural marriage to be much harder than she taught to believe, and finds herself questioning the practice. Five kids later, Susan is on the run from Verlan’s power […]

Categories: 2010 Reads, Nonfiction, North America, Religion, United States • Tags: Susan Ray Schmidt