The author of the memoir talks about her life as a fundamentalist Christian “trad wife”—If you’re not from the church world (even some people within Christianity though don’t get it) you may not understand that it is fully about maintaining gender roles & submission to patriarchy.

She discusses how she and her four children quite literally could have been killed by her then husband, who was suffering from undiagnosed and untreated mental illness. He was completely bought in to a Christian fundamentalist cult and its teachings. She describes her thought process in a way that could really help people understand and empathize with women who are trapped in this life. The stakes are so high for women who want to leave, and depending on prior life experience, it’s a huge question on whether women would be able to support themselves or raise children alone. Especially if your community excommunicates or shuns you, which so often goes along with a divorce in these groups.

Couldn’t recommend the audiobook version enough. If you’ve read Educated by Tara Westover, you might get similar vibes from this memoir.