The Monday-night family meetings (ours were on Sunday afternoons, actually), the year’s worth of food storage in the basement (which fully ruined me for store-bought canned peaches and pears. The thing that struck me most is that there wasn’t anything new in all this for me as a fellow member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From there, she talks about her path to Brigham Young University, and then the circumstances surrounding her path away from orthodoxy and her tentative return to it. She reflects on the seminal moments of her childhood, things she remembers fondly about her family’s faith. Joanna Brooks grew up as a Mormon in Orange County, Calif., during the 1970s and 1980s.
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