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The Latter Days: A Memoir
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An arresting, lyrical memoir about the path the author took—sometimes unwittingly—out of her Mormon upbringing and through a thicket of profound difficulties to become a writer.
 
At twenty-two, Judith Freeman was working in the Mormon church–owned department store in the Utah town where she’d grown up. In the process of divorcing the man she had married at seventeen, she was living in her parents’ house with her four-year-old son, who had already endured two heart surgeries. She had abandoned Mormonism, the faith into which she had been born, and she was having an affair with her son’s surgeon, a married man with three children of his own. It was at this fraught moment that she decided to become a writer. In this moving memoir, Freeman explores the circumstances and choices that informed her course, and those that allowed her to find a way forward. Writing with remarkable candor and insight, she gives us an illuminating, singular portrait of resilience and forgiveness, of memory and hindsight, and of the ways in which we come to identify our truest selves.
(With black-and-white photographs throughout.)
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(With black-and-white photographs throughout.)
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      • content: "The Latter Days, written with thoughtful, hard-won honesty, is the record of a girl growing up in a closed society rigidly governed by a male religious hierarchy -- a profoundly undemocratic system that claims to embody American values. Painfully but with no rancour, Judith Freeman makes vivid the security of belonging and the rewards of obedience, the costs of security and obedience, the rewards and costs of seeking freedom. A brave and valuable book."
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        Novelist Freeman (Red Water) recounts her upbringing in a Utah Mormon family where she never quite belonged in this poignant, if at times meandering, memoir of a life lived chafing against restrictions. Freeman was one of eight children, and only one of two girls, in a family run by a pragmatic, resourceful mother and an unpredictable father prone to violence. She grew up in the predominantly Mormon city of Ogden with her early life governed by the church. Freeman soon found the strictures of Mormonism oppressive, preferring to be outside riding horses or exploring nature. At age 17 in 1964, well on her way to becoming the Mormon version of a “wild child”—she smoked, she drank, she fooled around with boys—Freeman married her older sister’s ex-boyfriend, John Thorn, a Brigham Young graduate six years her senior. This first foray into adulthood was soon made terrifying when Freeman’s newborn son, Todd, was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart defect, one that would require a series of risky surgeries. Moving with John and Todd to St. Paul, Minn., so Todd could see a top-ranked heart surgeon while John worked as a counselor at Macalester College proved an awakening for Freeman on myriad levels as she strayed from her husband and came into her own academically. While some of the minutiae on Mormon life slow down the book’s middle sections, Freeman writes with the clear voice of a person who’s (mostly) shed the trappings of the past.

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        April 1, 2016
        A novelist's account of her early life growing up Mormon in Utah and the family memories she kept hidden from herself. Freeman (The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved, 2007, etc.) was the sixth child and second girl in a family of eight children raised by a "stoic...resourceful, and very loving" mother and a moody, unpredictable, physically abusive father. The people around her in Ogden were mostly Mormon, but as the family "wild girl," it was the "heathens" and rebels who interested her most. Her eldest brother, Bob, was the first to escape the family when he joined the Navy at age 17. Though he died less than two years later, he still managed to marry a Catholic woman and father a "damaged" child with her; Freeman's devoutly Mormon parents would eventually shun both. Meanwhile, the author struck up friendships with non-Mormon girls who smoked, drank, and flirted with boys. At age 17, she married John Thorn, the Mormon boyfriend and BYU graduate her beautiful, "ladylike" elder sister had rejected and whom she found attractive precisely because he had been with her sibling. She became pregnant almost immediately and gave birth to a son with a heart defect. Freeman followed her husband to a job as a counselor at a Minnesota liberal arts college, where she befriended a group of young intellectuals. When the opportunity for an affair with the pediatric cardiologist treating her son arose, Freeman accepted it, just as she accepted returning home to her parents in the wake of her eventual divorce. The author's story is highly readable, but its true power derives from the realizations she had later in life when she asked John to help her answer two questions: why she had married so young and chosen him as her husband. John's answers revealed that while she may have succeeded in suppressing memories--which John brought forward--of her father's cruelty, Freeman could never entirely free herself of the Mormon faith she had always questioned. A poignant, searching memoir of self-discovery.

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