![]() ![]() Is she brave enough to run away from the community that has sheltered her since birth?. ![]() I could choose no other book or newspaper until I had finished the final page., Williams strikes just the right balance between informative and cautionary in this gripping tale about a 13-year-old girl trapped in a polygamist cult.when she's "chosen" to be the seventh wife of her brutish, 60-something uncle, Kyra's desperation to be somewhere (or someone) else escalates ("God has given you to me, Kyra Leigh," her uncle tells her. Carol Lynch Williams presents a first-person narrative that gallops just behind-or perhaps in advance of-contemporary headlines about the manipulation of the innocent. ![]() The Chosen One makes the heart race, the teeth grind, and the brow bead up in sweat. ![]()
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