The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir

by Ruth Wariner

Book Overview

A New York Times bestseller, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult.

"A haunting, harrowing testament to survival." -- People Magazine
"An addictive chronicle of a polygamist community." -- New York Magazine

Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250077702
• ISBN13: 9781250077707
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Flatiron Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Gripping real life

I read the first couple of chapters & put the book down. I picked it up yesterday and finished the entire 342 pages. Brought back many flashbacks of my younger life as our lives were very similar. Ruthie deals with abandonment, depression, incest, death, criminal activity and was raising her younger siblings by the age of 14. Once she was freed from the morman LeBaron colony in Mexico she, along with her siblings, began to thrive. I would recommend this book.