Tell Us Something We Don't Know
Tell Us Something We Don't Know
Gabriela Tavakoli Bailey & Orly Minazad
#31: Escaping a Polygamous Mormon Colony
1 hour 7 minutes Posted Nov 30, 2023 at 11:00 am.
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Our guest is New York Times bestselling author Ruth Wariner. In her memoir The Sound of Gravel, she writes about growing up in a polygamous Mormon colony named after her grandfather in Mexico. She shares harrowing and unbelievable details about being her father’s 39th child, living in extreme poverty after her father’s murder – and then eventually escaping the colony that was enabling her stepfather’s sexual abuses. She’s here to share her story and the lengths she’s gone through since ...