For my second novel in Reading 104 I chose the book The Chosen One. So far from reading the back of the book haha I have learned the novel is about a girl named Kyra who is thirteen years old and has grown up in an isolated polygamist community. Since Kyra lives in an isolated community she has never questioned the fact that her father has three wives and that she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when Kyra finds out that the Prophet orders Kyra to marry her sixty year old uncle who already has six wives of his own.
For some reason this book seems interesting to me. I think it’s because I can’t understand why anyone would want to be a polygamist except maybe for the guys because they get to mess around with a bunch of different women and it’s considered ok. I don’t know how it doesn’t bother women in polygamist communities to have to share their husbands with several other women and then have to live in the same house with the other wives and their children. I could understand how if they were raised into a polygamist community that’s probably all they know but if they received the option to have a monogamous or a polygamist relationship why choose to be a polygamist. Recently there has been a new show on TLC called The Sister Wives that follows a polygamist family where the husband has four wives and a bunch of kids. So if you are curious about polygamists check out Sister Wives on TLC it’s very interesting.
Wow! I guess it doesn't surprise me that there's a reality show on polygamy.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the background on the author. I think she has some personal experience with cults and is interested in working with women that have left them.
Have you been introduced to the character of the Uncle yet? Can you believe this happens here in this country?