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Finding Karen: An Ancestral Mystery

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Availability:In StockContributor:Dorothy Allred SolomonSeries:Judith Keeling BookPublish date:2020-08-10Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas Tech University PressISBN-13:9781682830611ISBN-10:1682830616UPC:9781682830611Book Category:Religion, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Christianity, Personal MemoirsBook Topic:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)Size:8.90 x 7.60 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC009KTDTE
Since her groundbreaking memoir In My Father's House, which recounts an agonizing break from fundamentalist polygamy, Dorothy Allred Solomon has continued to publish on the lives of Mormon women and the dissonance many experience in connection to fundamentalist pasts. The more Solomon delved into issues of agency, the more she felt her own dissonance and began to look for answers in her ancestral past--those early women she knew only through family stories. Finding Karen: An Ancestral Mystery springs from a decade of research into Solomon's paternal great-great-grandmother Karen Sorensen Rasmussen, who converted to Mormonism in Denmark and emigrated to the United States in 1859. Held up to Solomon throughout childhood as an icon of feminine heroism, a stoic handcart immigrant who helped establish Zion in Utah, Karen became equally emblematic of Solomon's own strong-willed determination and of everything Solomon found lacking in herself. Finding Karen is a revelatory journey, twinned with Solomon's own in surprising ways. As valuable a study in recovering history as it is in the need to reexamine family stories, Solomon's retelling takes readers through the twists and turns of discovery/recovery as she encounters them. In doing so, she illuminates not only the risk inherent in trusting even what persists as historic record but also the insights to be gained from assiduous persistence.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas Tech University PressISBN-13:9781682830611ISBN-10:1682830616UPC:9781682830611Book Category:Religion, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Christianity, Personal MemoirsBook Topic:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)Size:8.90 x 7.60 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC009KTDTE
Solomon, Dorothy Allred: - Author, teacher, communication trainer, and life coach, Dorothy Allred Solomon wrote the groundbreaking memoir, In My Father's House, recounting her polygamous family's history of exile and persecution. Subsequent works have also received awards and recognition. In 2020, she will attend University of Nevada, Las Vegas as the Black Mountain Institute Creative Nonfiction fellow.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

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