Keep Sweet

Michele Dominguez Greene

Mar 2010 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Alva Jane has never questioned her parents, never questioned her faith, never questioned her future. She is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-eight siblings. This is the only world Alva has ever known, and she has never thought to challenge it.

But everything changes when Alva is caught giving her long-time crush an innocent first kiss. Beaten, scorned, and now facing a forced marriage to a violent, fifty-year old man, Alva suddenly realizes how much she has to lose--and how impossible it will be to escape.

Ratings and reviews

Was really good but it paints mormons as horrible to thier kids when around here it seem to be the kids being horrible to everyone else, i'm not mormon (anymore/really ever) but my sister is and she wasn't happy with this one.

This book is great. So good that I some research after reading it on order to learn more about the FLDS church.

This was an AWESOME book. I read it in less than 24 hours it was so good. The story of this girl Alva is crazy! I could hardly believe it!

About the author

Michele Dominguez Greene is the author of Keep Sweet and Chasing the Jaguar. She is active in numerous writing and literacy workshops with inner city kids throughout Southern California, and speaks regularly at conferences around the country. She has published articles in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Animal Wellness Magazine, and Cuerpo Magazine, and has had a long-standing, successful career as an actress, appearing in television, film, and theater. She lives in Los Angeles.