When three women and their children are massacred on the side of the road in Mexico, it was such big news that even I out in Maryland heard about it. In my Mormon Facebook circles, people close to them were devastated by their loss and I was shocked and saddened by the violence of it. What in the world went down on that lonely Mexican road and how did things come to that?
In this nonfiction book, the author analyzes Mexican politics as well as the history of Mormonism in Mexico, and how it is all tangled up with polygamy. And yes, it is tangled. I eventually really had to just sort of let go of remembering who everybody is and what family they belong to. Between all the different cartels, and the different clans of Mormon polygamists, there are a lot of people in this very real story. I still feel like I learned things, even if it was really hard to keep people straight. I was surprised by some of what I read, especially the connection to another Big Name cult, and in the end, what I mostly felt like is that the “Mormons” who live in this part of Mexico have not been good stewards of the land and that’s a huge shame. The book itself is a bit dry, but if you are interested in the subject, it has a lot of information.
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