Like the naked preacher in Margaret Blair Young's Zoo Sounds whose placard urges passersby to repent in the raw, Young peels away layers of pretense to reveal her characters' basic instincts. She writes about people who live hard lives, who face uns...
The Morgans seem like a typical Utah family. The teenagers act like teenagers and the parents respond like normal parents. Except Mom has multiple sclerosis. The family copes with this situation more or less. They treat Mom like the fun-loving person...
This well-researched historical novel reconstructs the lives of two 19th-century African-American converts to Mormonism. Elijah Abel, the first African-American man ordained to the LDS priesthood, carried the message of Joseph Smith to whites and fre...