With Marie Osmond as her celebrity role model and plenty of Sunday School teachers to fill in the rest of the details, Joanna felt warmly embraced by the community that was such an integral part of her family. But, in her eyes, that made her special the devout LDS home she grew up in was filled with love, spirituality, and an emphasis on service. In her sweet, funny, and impassioned memoir The Book of Mormon Girl, Joanna Brooks sheds light onto one of America's most fascinating but least understood religious traditions.įrom her days of feeling like "a root beer among the Cokes"-Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her-Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set her apart from others.
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