num_pages: 224
description: Forced to flee her childhood home and biological father due to a declaration from the Prophet, Becca, her Mother and siblings relocate to “The Crick” where polygamous families have forged an FLDS utopia. Becca struggles to make sense of her new relationship with an outcast dad, and the code of the Prophet which promises a superior existence with strict obedience.Blanketed by apocalyptic prophecies of world destruction for unbelievers and looming threats of being declared an apostate, she strives to “Keep Sweet” alongside an enormous new family of three mothers, a new father, and dozens of brothers and sisters.Underneath the beauty of wholesome childhood adventures with family and friends is an aching awareness that something isn’t right as she grows into womanhood and realizes her future is not her own.She must break the code before it is too late.
language: English
title: The Crick Code: A Novel Based on the Memoirs of a Girl Raised in the FLDS Community of Colorado City
publisher: Water Rat Productions