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Hardcover: 9780609609910, Crown Pub, February 16, 2005, cover price $24.95
Paperback: 9780307335999, Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, April 25, 2006), cover price $14.95
Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
In a moving and inspirational memoir of faith, the author of Finding Your Own North Star describes growing up within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, her decision to speak out publicly of her criticism of the church, and her difficult decision to leave the Mormon church to pursue her own transforming search for spirituality. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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Product Description: As âMormon royaltyâ within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Churchâs high elders in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the first time in her life. When her son was born with Down syndrome, Martha and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them.
But when she was hired to teach at Brigham Young University, Martha was troubled by the way the Churchâs elders silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs. Most troubling of all, she was forced to face her history of sexual abuse by one of the Churchâs most prominent authorities. The New York Times bestseller Leaving the Saints chronicles Marthaâs decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had cradled her for so long and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply.
Leaving the Saints offers a rare glimpse inside one of the worldâs most secretive religions while telling a profoundly moving story of personal courage, survival, and the transformative power of spirituality.
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