Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith, (Paperback)

from coolmama

I found her writing to be funny, honest and witty. Martha Beck, daughter of a high ranking Mormon family left Utah to go to Harvard. When she returns home, a place she feels will be an easier and more welcoming environment that Cambridge to raise her son with Downs Syndrome, she "discovers" that ...

from bnbooklady

As one fascinated by all things Mormon, I found this memoir about growing up the daughter of a famous LDS apologist to be a captivating look at life in a culture that's pretty foreign to my own experience. Beck writes with great humor and insight about a difficult childhood and recovering memorie...

from bobbieharv

Fascinating story (memoir) about her early abuse by her father, a revered LDS elder and teacher at BYU. Some of the satiric writing was a bit over the top - but lots of interesting Morman stories.

from Grandeplease

The faithful Latter-day Saints do not read unapproved material and Leaving The Saints is not on the approved list, according to its author, Martha Beck. Ms. Beck has an axe to grind, but writes with an authoritative stone. Quoting from the back cover: As "Mormon royalty" within the Church of Jesu...

from Lenaphoenix

Martha Beck was an atheist-inclined grad student when miraculous happenings during her second pregnancy reawakened her interest in spirituality. After moving back to her hometown of Provo, she embraced her childhood religion in effort to deepen this newfound faith. She writes with lucidity and hu...