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FOR MAGGIE RAYNER, conditional love and the threat of violence were the lock on the prison of church and family in which she was raised.

Set in the 1950s and 60s on the West Coast of British Columbia, In Polygamy's Shadow: From a Mormon Childhood to a Life of Choice chronicles Maggie's personal struggle to keep herself from being devoured by the Mormon church and her parents' unrelenting loyalty to it. She questions why her family eats food from a garbage dump while her father rises in the church hierarchy and her parents pay tithing on every dollar that comes into the...

A JOURNAL, KEPT SECRET

"No breakfast per usual . . . got a cold, covered in chigger bites, sun burned . . . lost six pounds . . . found a used car lot and got in the back seat of a big car. Slept sound . . . I know the Lord blesses me in my efforts . . ."
When Maggie Rayner's mother gives her the journal her father wrote before she was born, she discovers a man she never knew.
Borrowed Trousers: Diary of a Mormon Missionary draws the reader into the thoughts and feelings of a cowboy from Alberta serving a mission in Texas and Louisiana, from...