A fascinating book! Krakauer presents the history both of the main Mormon church as well as the various fundamentalist factions in an effort to bring understanding to a double murder that occurred in 1984. This was a departure for Krakauer, who writes for Outside magazine & whose books are mostly about the outdoors (i.e. Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Eiger Dreams).The most impressive part of this book for me was the appendix, where the author reprints in its entirety a criticism of the book written by a Mormon who felt the content was overly biased against the church. He of course writes a rebuttal, but I commend him for laying it all on the table like that.
This book has been passed on to Linda Redman.
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