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A review by booksam
Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith by Martha Beck
3.0
Three stars for a well written and highly interesting book. I couldn't put it down!
But I didn't fully believe her all of the time (even her remembered trauma... I don't want to say that she was lying or delusional but the whole situation was weird). And I thought that the way she portrayed Mormons wasn't very sensitive to the fact that not all Mormons are like the ones she wrote about. I had to keep trying to justify what she was saying by telling myself that the Mormons in Utah must be much more hardcore and exclusive then they are in other parts of the country, or that she must have had some really bad luck with the Mormons she happened to know.
Overall some of the book just didn't sit right with me. But I'm still glad that I read it.
But I didn't fully believe her all of the time (even her remembered trauma... I don't want to say that she was lying or delusional but the whole situation was weird). And I thought that the way she portrayed Mormons wasn't very sensitive to the fact that not all Mormons are like the ones she wrote about. I had to keep trying to justify what she was saying by telling myself that the Mormons in Utah must be much more hardcore and exclusive then they are in other parts of the country, or that she must have had some really bad luck with the Mormons she happened to know.
Overall some of the book just didn't sit right with me. But I'm still glad that I read it.