{"product_id":"9781637747292","title":"The Dirt Beneath Our Door","description":"Author: Pamela  Jones\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781637747292\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: BenBella Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 14 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Jones’ remarkable story is impossible to put down.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Shocking, sad and hopeful.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Minneapolis Star Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e“This gripping story of survival, resilience, and hope is one I will not soon forget.” —Ruth Wariner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestselling Author, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Gravel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEducated \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Gravel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dirt Beneath Our Door\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e tells the remarkable and inspirational story of how a mother escaped a fundamentalist Mormon cult with her eight youngest children, only to struggle with newfound freedom in an America she barely knew.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSixty-one siblings. Five sister wives. Nine children. And one carefully hidden dream: To escape the violent, misogynistic, fundamentalist Mormon cult that kept Pamela Jones perpetually pregnant, broken, and brutalized.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Today, Pamela Jones is a self-made millionaire and successful CEO. But growing up, she never could have imagined her life would turn out that way. From a young age, she was told her only purpose in life was to be her husband’s handmaid and bear him as many children as possible. While she endured fear, poverty, deprivation, and abuse, her family constantly moved between rural desert compounds in the United States and Mexico, one step ahead of the law and one step ahead of Ervil LeBaron, aka “The Mormon Charles Manson”—the cult’s frightening leader whose brutal blood atonements left a trail of bodies in his wake.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n By the time she was newly married at fifteen, Pamela’s husband forbade her any contact with outsiders, including her own family. She’d been raised to believe that her throat would be slit and her blood sprinkled on the soil if she ever tried to escape. But in 2000 at age thirty-four, she knew that if she and her children didn’t escape, they would die.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Dirt Beneath the Door \u003c\/i\u003efollows their desperate flight across the Mexican border with only the clothes on their backs, two vehicles and two tanks of gas, a five-dollar bill, and two credit cards her husband had secretly taken out in her name. Once settling in Minnesota, Pamela must use her own resilience and grit as a mother to support her children and build an independent life for her family with less than a fifth-grade education–all while exploring the life and liberties that had been denied to her for so long.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n An unforgettable testament to the power of hope and resilience, \u003ci\u003eThe Dirt Beneath Our Door is an epic\u003c\/i\u003e and harrowing tale of finding freedom, believing in yourself, and achieving the American Dream.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46603508056222,"sku":"HPC-9781637747292","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781637747292.jpg?v=1773377797","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781637747292","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}