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Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country

Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country

By Emily Benedek

No one believed it could happen in their town. But it did. Valarie Clark Miller seemed to have it all. Smart and beautiful with a wealthy, successful husband and growing family, Valarie appeared to be the picture-perfect Mormon wife. But it was all a façade. Inside, she was crumbling from the pressures of long-repressed memories of a childhood filled with sexual and physical abuse.

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Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
Publish Date: 10/15/2024
Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9798886452488
ISBN-10: 8886452489
Language: English

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No one believed it could happen in their town. But it did.

Valarie Clark Miller seemed to have it all. Smart and beautiful with a wealthy, successful husband and growing family, Valarie appeared to be the picture-perfect Mormon wife. But it was all a façade. Inside, she was crumbling from the pressures of long-repressed memories of a childhood filled with sexual and physical abuse.

In Hometown Betrayal, author Emily Benedek brings you behind the closed doors of the remote Mormon community of Clarkston, Utah. With the help of hundreds of individual stories, she pieces together not only what happened to Valarie, but also the conditions and culture that allowed it. Hometown Betrayal culminates in an account of the Miller family's fight to hold accountable the men--including the local cop-- who abused Valarie and controlled the systems designed to look the other way.

About the Author

Emily Benedek grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times , the Washington Post , Newsweek , Rolling Stone , Glamour , Vogue , and the Dallas Morning News and on NPR, among others.

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