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Documents the story of Robert ‘Papa Pilgrim’ Hale, a fundamentalist leader in remote Alaska, who established a cult-like community where he subjected his wife and fifteen children to extreme cruelty and isolation. This controversial family settlement was only discovered after Hale’s violent death, leading to a dramatic turn of events that captivates the New York Times bestseller list.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Tom Kizzia
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