I'm on the book club circuit
This afternoon I chatted with Joyce Gray of North Carolina, who contacted me last week to see if I would be willing to speak with her about Carolyn Jessop's book "Escape."
Joyce's book club, Cover to Cover in Davidson, NC, is meeting tonight to discuss the book and she wanted some fresh information to give the women. What a great idea! I've been in book clubs before and never thought about contacting someone connected with the story to discuss the book we'd read.
Any way. Joyce asked a number of interesting questions. She wanted to know how Carolyn is doing, how her children are and whether Carolyn has had any contact with her daughter, Betty. I told her what I knew, based on my last conversation with Carolyn.
Carolyn, by the way, is doing great. And the book keeps selling. Just last week as I waited to board a plane in Orange County I noticed another passenger reading it.
Back to Joyce. Joyce also wanted to know what had become of Merrill Jessop and Carolyn's former sister wives. And she wanted to know why the mainstream Mormon Church wasn't doing anything about these renegade sects.
That was where I might have been most useful. I gave a brief history of polygamy and its practice within Mormonism, explaining that the mainstream LDS Church disavowed it in 1890 and again in 1904 and that it has nothing to do with sects like the one Carolyn belonged to.
That was new information for Joyce. For many people, these distinctions are easily missed.
Just before I took Joyce's call, I received a voice message from someone in Las Vegas, New Mexico, who also wants more information. Hmmm.
Joyce's book club, Cover to Cover in Davidson, NC, is meeting tonight to discuss the book and she wanted some fresh information to give the women. What a great idea! I've been in book clubs before and never thought about contacting someone connected with the story to discuss the book we'd read.
Any way. Joyce asked a number of interesting questions. She wanted to know how Carolyn is doing, how her children are and whether Carolyn has had any contact with her daughter, Betty. I told her what I knew, based on my last conversation with Carolyn.
Carolyn, by the way, is doing great. And the book keeps selling. Just last week as I waited to board a plane in Orange County I noticed another passenger reading it.
Back to Joyce. Joyce also wanted to know what had become of Merrill Jessop and Carolyn's former sister wives. And she wanted to know why the mainstream Mormon Church wasn't doing anything about these renegade sects.
That was where I might have been most useful. I gave a brief history of polygamy and its practice within Mormonism, explaining that the mainstream LDS Church disavowed it in 1890 and again in 1904 and that it has nothing to do with sects like the one Carolyn belonged to.
That was new information for Joyce. For many people, these distinctions are easily missed.
Just before I took Joyce's call, I received a voice message from someone in Las Vegas, New Mexico, who also wants more information. Hmmm.
1 Comments:
Are Carolyn and Flora Jesseps related? I just purchased a copy of "Escape" and am looing forward to reading it. I just finished Irene Spencer's book "Shattered Dreams" which I could hardly put down. I am glad that Carolyn Jessop is willing to inform the public about the FLDS religion.
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