LEAVING THE SAINTS: HOW I LOST THE MORMONS AND FOUND MY FAITH: Martha Beck: Crown: Nonfiction: 306 pp.Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley's daughter, Martha Beck, penned a volatile memoir that posits questions including the legitimacy of his work. Beck, a Harvard educated sociologist, author and life coach, weaves incidents from past and present into an account likely to comfort the disaffected and affront the faithful.
Her search for self, truth and faith is kindled by church censorship of courses at Brigham Young University where she and her husband taught.
She builds her narrative around a meeting she had with her elderly father and disturbingly intersperses their conversation with her daily routines, incongruent humor and ultimately her recalled memories of childhood ritualistic sexual abuse. Cathartic for her, or not, it pains the soul to read.
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