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Joanna Brooks

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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: 3.53 · 1,561 ratings · 548 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith 3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 1,538 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Face Zion Forward: First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798 by Joanna Brooks (Editor), John Saillant 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets by Tyler Chadwick (Editor), Neil Aitken (Goodreads Author), Matthew James Babcock 4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan by Samson Occom, Robert Warrior, Joanna Brooks 3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions by Lisa L. Moore (Editor), Joanna Brooks (Editor), Caroline Wigginton (Editor) 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?”
― Joanna Brooks, The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

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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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“I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am not an orthodox Mormon woman like my mother. I am an unorthodox Mormon woman with a fierce and hungry faith. ”
― Joanna Brooks, The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

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