I started this book shortly after my mission, many years before my disaffection. I didn't finish because it was so disturbing to orthodox me. I figured she must be lying, exaggerating, or leaving out important details (such as what she did to deserve poor treatment from the Lion of the Lord). But it added weight to my belief shelf.
It was kind of forced on me and sat on the shelf for a year. I'm really enjoying it! The mystery is set in modern times, and has chapters of the 1875(ish) book woven in.
I read this book and the further I got into it the sicker I became knowing that I was taught how wonderful a man Brigham Young was all the while he was a real horror in life. Thankfully this woman had the gumption to write the truth as she saw it and wasn't afraid to do so. I think if I had been her I would not have been so courageous. I appreciate her strength and determination.
Just wanted to say thankyou for guiding me to this book. I have also downloaded a lot of others from the salamander site. I have expressed how I feel in another thread, but all I can say is that I am really really shattered by what I read. And whatever way I look at it, it makes sense and rings true. It is a long ime since I felt SO awful about something as I do about what I read in this book. And to think I was part of it, or at least a watered downvesion of it!?!! That just makes my skin crawl!!
I have a bound photo-copied version--terribly last century of me I know--that cost less than fifteen bucks. Same with Fanny Stenhouse's "Tell It All."
The Tanners have been making immeasurable contributions to correcting LDS revisionism, and if you don't get this one, there are lots of other selections.