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When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he is joking. "They'd all vote against me if you put my name up," she tells him, "and I'd vote with them."
She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all. Why would the Lord want her?
Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells her: "You lost your husband and you didn't give up. You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't. I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now. I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got."
But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?
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The MUST-READ for every LDS book club!
J L, CA - October 08, 2008
This book prompted both laughter and tears.
It is a supposedly fictional account of an unlikely Relief Society President during the Great Depression. However, it is extremely relevant for our day and these turbulent economic times!
I say 'supposedly fictional' because it's like Brother Hughes was there! His thorough research shines trough. However, what impressed me most was his character development. I promise that you will know and recognize the very human men and women on these pages in yourself and, in others. I should warn you that, like me, you may sometimes find that recognition a tad discomforting.:)
We can all learn from these characters and from the spiritual promptings that will come as we ponder our place in the story. The author has done his job so well that, if we are open to it, ever greater insights and lessons may come to us from between the lines of print.
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