Advance Reviews

"In Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk, Dorothy Solomon has opened the door to what lives inside fundamentalism of any kind. In so doing, we recognize the complexity and danger embodied in those individuals who believe in "the one and only truth." Writing with compassion and an uncommon wisdom, Solomon leads us through the labyrinth of one woman's creative hunger for identity in a culture where women are not only hidden but invisible."

—Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge and Leap

"At once redemptive and deeply tragic, Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk is a saga so stirring, so epic in scale, that it can hardly be contained in these pages. Dorothy Solomon's courage is matched by her graceful writing. This is a lovely and shattering book."

—Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

"Dorothy Solomon has taken a subject that is foreign to most of us, and very kindly and gently made it comprehensible. Here is a wise and moving memoir that should be read by anyone interested in how we configure our relationships in the name of love and power."

—Judith Freeman, author of Red Waters and The Chinchilla Farm

"Boldly and strongly imagined, Predators, Prey and Other Kinfolk takes us deep into the heart of a family story that is both strange and familiar, simple and complex. Whether writing of the Mormon religion that defined her polygamist existence or profiling the patriarchal father whose words and actions could both wound and heal, Solomon remains open to the hard truths."

—Kim Barnes, author of In This Wilderness

"I have never read a memoir that moved me so deeply. The questions Dorothy Solomon asks strike at the heart of the human experience. How does one "honor thy Father and thy Mother" when one cannot share many of their deepest convictions? Solomon honors her progenitors, and her journey redefines what it means to know, to love, to honor, and to transcend."

—Teresa Jordan, author of Riding the White Horse Home

This rich personal story goes deeper into the ongoing world of polygamy than we've ever been. Dorothy Solomon's book lives very near the hidden place where sex meets politics."

—Ron Carlson, author of the Hotel Eden and the upcoming A Kind of Flying

"What a hypnotically strange and dreamlike world Dorothy Solomon describes. I came away from this fascinating account of life in polygamy the way one does from some dreams—with one's context somehow altered, another way of seeing."

—Lynn Freed, author of House of Women

"Predators Prey, and Other Kinfolk is an amazing story. Dorothy Allred Solomon recounts the nearly incomprehensible history of a woman growing up in a polygamous, fugitive family. She tells of the unyielding power of God, of father, of denial—and ultimately of truth—with courage, a deep sense of responsibility, and a loving and even hand."

—Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat