If your faith taught you that living in polygamy was the key to eternal salvation, what would you do? Follow it's tenets, although there are people who love you and want to be in a monogamous relationship with you. Strange and unbelievable as it may seem, Irene Spencer's tale of being a member of a polygamous Mormon splinter sect is wonderfully absorbing reading.
Spanning an era from the sixties to the eighties Shattered Dreams is the tale of a wife who learned to coexist with other women - her place in heaven was assured if she did that. This is not a tale of perversion or cultishness at all. Instead it is a story of how women share the same man with jealousy and discomfort, how they aid each other and hate each other and how their lives go on in poverty with little but faith to sustain them.
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