A Little Mormon Girl - Softcover

Hunter, Eva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615890083 ISBN 13: 9780615890081

Publisher: St. Michael's Press, 2013

Synopsis

In this memoir, a little girl grows up in a strict Mormon household in the idyllic "perfect" town of Boulder City, Nevada--a town created and run by the US Federal government as a model city. She is the third child of four. Her mother is cold and punishing, and her sisters resent the interloper she is to them. The only warmth in the family is her flawed, yet charming father, who becomes one of the town's leading citizens. He is a child sexual abuser, and his actions affect every member of her family, and generation after generation that follows. This is the story of her flight to freedom and a new understanding of the world--from an oppressive, anti-female religion, a cold, punishing mother, and the horror of her father's advances.

About this title

About the Author

Eva Hunter is an award-winning writer who has been published in numerous periodicals, including "Northwest Magazine," "The New York Times," "The Boston Herald," and many more. Her book, "The Lord of the Dolls: Voyage in Xochimilco," published in 2006, has since become a rare book, and was accepted in 2013 into the prestigious Benson Collection at the Center for Mexican-American Studies, University of T Texas Libraries, Austin Texas. The author is Executive Editor of the on-line and hard copy literary magazine "SOL: English Writing in Mexico."

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Michael's Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0615890083
• ISBN 13: 9780615890081
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 258