Joanna Brooks

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Every Mormon girl has a story to tell. This groundbreaking memoir brings you into one of America’s most fascinating but least understood religious traditions. With humor, tenderness, and honesty, The Book of Mormon Girl reveals what it’s like to grow up in a world where angels stand at our bedsides and ancestors know our names, where Coca-Cola is forbidden fruit and Marie Osmond is a style icon. This is a story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith.

Praise for The Book of Mormon Girl:

“A pathbreaking and utterly necessary memoir.”–Carolyn Forché, celebrated poet and human rights activist

“Laugh-out-loud funny and break-your-heart poignant. A triumph.”–Carol Lynn Pearson, author of No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons Around Our Gay Loved Ones

“A compelling memoir of being found and lost and found again. Brooks is a contemporary Mormon pioneer.”–Jana Riess, author of Flunking Sainthood and Mormonism for Dummies

“Disarming, funny, wrenching, and inspiring. This is a quietly fierce, authentic, and faithful voice, one that insists her religious tradition is young, and the next chapter yet to be written.”–Phillip Barlow, Ph.D., Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture, Utah State University

Tuesday, 1/24,12 noon, I’ll be speaking at “God and Politics: Examining Religion in the 2012 Election,” Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.
Friday, 2/2 – Saturday, 2/3, I’ll be speaking about Mormons and California’s Proposition 8 at the “Mormonism and Politics” Conference, Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Columbia University
Sunday, 2/4, 10 a.m., I’ll be speaking about “How I Experience God as a Mormon” at Trinity Church Wall Street, New York City
Friday, 2/17, 7 p.m., join me to indulge in bad Mormon desserts and samples from The Book of Mormon Girl at the Mormon Stories Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
Thursday, 3/29, I’ll be delivering the keynote at the Annual Mormon Studies Conference–”Mormons and the Internet,” Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah.
Friday, 3/30, I’ll be visiting The Porch in Provo.
And I’m happy to Skype visit with your book group, college class, or Mormon Stories regional meet-up. Contact me to arrange.

AND IN OTHER NEWS:

What does 2012 mean to Mormons? My take here at the Washington Post.
Thanks to Guy Raz at NPR’s ALL THINGS CONSIDERED for a terrific visit about why Mitt Romney’s candidacy might be making Mormons feel both excited and anxious.
MORMON DEMYSTIFIED: It was terrific talking with Krista Tippet, host of the acclaimed public radio show On Being, about Mormonism. Listen here.
BREAKING NEWS: Politico says I’m one of “50 Politicos to Watch.” Follow @askmormongirl on Twitter for my take on Mormon life and politics, or read me at Religion Dispatches.
ASK MORMON GIRL BLOG: The legendary Feminist Mormon Housewives blog is home for my Q&A column Ask Mormon Girl, your source for unorthodox but friendly perspectives on Mormon thought and culture. Have a question burning in your bosom? Write askmormongirl at gmail.com.