Tolstoy may have believed happy families are all alike, but Holly Welker doesn't.
Plenty of happy families — especially Mormon ones — have surprisingly rich, angst-ridden, conflict-driven, yet resilient relationships. Others are done in by failed expectations or unexpected revelations.
Still others, of course, contain moments of misery, abuse, miscommunication, infidelity, betrayal.
Welker, an award-winning writer and editor, set out to find and tell these stories, compiling them into an arresting new volume, "Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly About Love, Sex, and Marriage."
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