>Maybe you didn't dismiss Martha Beck's "Leaving the Saints," but I think
>it's wrongheaded to say >the book isn't important, that it isn't valuable
>to our community in some ways as a legitimate >critique of what I've called
>elsewhere our "provincial lunacies." The value of her book doesn't >turn
>only on whether her claims of abuse are true. I recommend it to Mormons of
>all stripes.
The book doesn't turn on the claims of abuse--those are just the most
sensational parts. The point is that she is an unreliable narrator. Her
book is so full of holes and patently ridiculous stories that her critique
of the culture is useless because it is a caricature, not a true picture.
Marianne Hales Harding
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