The absolute poverty that this woman and her cohorts lived in was staggering to me. She lived in pathetic housing with hardly anything to eat. She was in a plural marriage, with several children between herself and the other wives. Her husband was part of a family full of mentally unstable people, all raised to belive that polygamy was the ticket to Heaven. Her brother in law was a complete nutcase, who ordered the murder of several other people, including his own family members. This book was heartbreaking to read.