How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history.

The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2012) - ISBN: 9781451699685