In My Father's House: A Memoir of Polygamy

Before Big Love, before Eldorado, a groundbreaking memoir explored polygamy, not with outrage but with honesty and grace. In 1984, when polygamous groups knew little but the fear and pain of secrecy and hiding, Dorothy Allred Solomon, the twenty-eighth of forty-eight children, went public with her family's story. Descended from five generations of Mormon polygamy, Solomon evokes the fervor and dedication that bound the Allreds to "living the Principle." She vividly renders the persecution and poverty she knew as a child, the joyous awe of a father's too-rare presence, and an abiding hunger for autonomy. Confronting the paradox of a faith that seals loved ones as families for eternity but casts them as outlaws in the here and now, she traces the events that culminated in her father's 1977 assassination, a tragedy that rocked all Utah. Now, more than a quarter century later, Solomon revisits her story in a new preface and epilogue and in light of recent events that continue to rivet attention and spotlight our national struggle for understanding and fairness.

Author: Dorothy Allred Solomon
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 01/15/2009
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780896726468
ISBN10: 0896726460
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Religion | Christianity | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (
- Social Science | Sociology | Marriage & Family

About the Author
Dorothy Allred Solomon s most recent book is The Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women. She lives, writes, and blogs in Utah, where she and her husband also design communication seminars."