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Joanna Brooks is a national voice on Mormon life and politics and an award-winning scholar of religion and American culture. She covers Mormonism, faith, and politics for ReligionDispatches.org and has been named one of “50 Politicos to Watch” by Politico.com.

A twenty-year veteran of the Mormon feminist and LGBT equality movements, Brooks grew up in a conservative Mormon home among the last great orange groves of Orange County, California. She attended Brigham Young University and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 205 ratings · 88 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith 3.84 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Face Zion Forward: First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798 by Joanna Brooks (Editor), John Saillant 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets by Tyler Chadwick (Editor), Neil Aitken (Goodreads Author), Matthew James Babcock 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan by Samson Occom, Robert Warrior, Joanna Brooks 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions by Lisa L. Moore (Editor), Joanna Brooks (Editor), Caroline Wigginton (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart, my heart." No one says any of these things. But they should.”
― Joanna Brooks, The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

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“How is it we come through the most difficult miles? Do we come silent or singing? Do we come in company, or do we come alone? Are we all alone on the open plains under starlit skies, all alone with the cooing owls in the dark of early morning? Our ancestors, our grandmothers, will their spirits take pity on us?”
― Joanna Brooks

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“How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history. ”
― Joanna Brooks, The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

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