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Growing up on a farm in rural mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the practices of her community, ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. A riveting, deeplyaffecting true story of one girls comingofage in a polygamist. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Ruth wariners simple writing, her enduring love for her mother and siblings, and her dramatic escape make this an engrossing, deeply moving memoir. In the sound of gravel, she offers an unforgettable portrait of the violence that threatened her community, her familys fierce sense of loyalty, and her own unshakeable belief in the. Wariner is her mothers fourth daughter and her fathers 39th child. Growing up on a farm in rural mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the practices of her community, ruth lives in a ramshackle. The thirtyninth of her fathers fortytwo children, ruth wariner grew up in polygamist family on a farm in rural mexico. In the gravel yard, with a number for my name making little rocks out of big rocks all day oh, the work is mighty hard in the gravel yard ill never be a free man, so they say.
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