Mormon memoir
‘Real Housewife’ Heather Gay pens a juicy ex-Mormon memoir
By Jana Riess — February 8, 2023
(RNS) — Mormonism worked well for ‘Real Housewife’ Heather Gay — until it didn’t. She’s not looking back.
New memoir unpacks what Mormon girls are taught about marriage
By Jana Riess — November 15, 2022
(RNS) — 'I needed to learn that I get to decide what my life looks life,' says Rachel Rueckert, author of the new memoir 'East Winds.'
Mormon woman’s memoir tackles cancer, parenting, and ‘the problem we want to have’ in today’s LDS Church
By Jana Riess — June 28, 2019
Melissa Inouye's new memoir "Crossings" is for any Mormon reader who has ever felt marginalized -- which, as she explains, is all of us.
Mormon single mom on survival, hope and how a community carried her
By Jana Riess — July 24, 2017
When Tracy McKay was a single mom living in poverty, the Mormon community carried her through.
Mormon single woman’s loves, losses & laughter chronicled in new memoir
By Jana Riess — October 13, 2015
If you grew up thinking that by your 40s you'd be a Mormon mom with a brood of kids and a minivan, what happens when Mr. Right never shows up? In a funny new memoir, Julie Rowse explores the ups and downs of Mormon single life.
Where do smart, sexy, single, Mormon thirty-somethings fit in the Church?
By Jana Riess — March 13, 2014
How do single Mormon women in their 30s stay faithful? And how many has the Church already lost?
Mormon Writer Phyllis Barber on “Searching for Spirit”
By Jana Riess — August 15, 2013
In this lovely guest post, Mormon memoirist Phyllis Barber recounts a lifetime spent searching for the places the Spirit resides, though she notes she is a "mere beginner in the ancient business of seeking Spirit and the Divine." Not content to file answers in the "I Know" box, she finds illumination and glimpses of the holy in unexpected ways.
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