Jennifer's review
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
This book was well written, but a little heavy on nature/ecology (and I'm someone who's interested in ecology). Sometimes I felt like she didn't fully make the connection about what was going on with the Great Salt Lake and her life. But, when she did connect those two things (predominantly near the end of the memoir) it was beautiful and it made me have a different perspective about suffering and loss. I related most to her description of watching the women in her family suffer from cancer and how she felt as she cared for them because this is something that I experienced in my own life just a few years ago. This book also gave me an interesting insight into the rise of feminism within the LDS church and how it has changed over the years (at least according to my experiences as I was involved with Women's Studies at BYU).
