Mormon Women

In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves. Isolated by the red-rock cliffs that surround the town, she and her neighbors live apart from the outside world.

Growing up is hard. During the few short years of adolescence, young women are expected to move out, get an education, and support themselves while building skills like managing money, setting goals, and cooking cheap, nutritious meals. It's a lot of pressure, even for girls who have supportive parents and helpful siblings. With Life Tumbled, Malissa teaches you how to make the most of your one shot. The decisions you make, skills you pick up, and wisdom you gather at this special age set the course for the rest of your life. Make it the best it can be. Let's tumble together!

Get ready to laugh. Get ready to be outraged. And get ready to see polygamy as no one has ever revealed it before. Joanne tells their crazy story with humor and honesty. You'll share her angst over sharing her husband. You'll meet her "sister wives", a prophet calling himself a "celestial stud service" who seeks divine guidance on threesomes, and apostles who dress in weird robes to curse the White House. You'll fume at gut-wrenching tales of racism, sexual abuse, fraud, and manipulation.

A new marriage; two sons facing the tumultuous teen years; work as a computer consultant. And now assigned to oversee care for all the women of her church from the new young mothers to grieving widows, Margaret Agard is overwhelmed with her five page to-do list. She makes the daily decision to turn the list over to God. Her life is quickly filled with experiences both touching and quirky from hospital visits to screaming peacocks culminating in her astonishing changed relationship with God.