"This is an absorbing, often comic, always vivid account of a childhood torn between the demands of a strict Mormon household and the enticements of a thoroughly secular world. . . . In its shape, its tone, its humor, and its verbal authority, this memoir bears comparison to Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood." -Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe
"The memoir of the remarkable daughter who does splits and cartwheels along her own fine line between fame and damnation." -Sally S. Eckhoff, Voice Literary Supplement
"Simply the best memoir of Mormon girlhood written in this century." -The Association for Mormon Letters
