The Prodigal Daughter
Mette Ivie Harrison
May 2021 · RB Media · Narrated by Kirsten Potter
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In the wake of the #MeToo movement, has it become easier to speak out about sexual assault in religious communities?
Linda Wallheim, who is increasingly jaded with the Mormon church, has begun marriage counseling with her bishop husband, Kurt, hoping to reconcile their household and philosophical disagreements. On other days, Linda occupies herself with happier things, like visits to see her five grown sons and their families.
When Linda's eldest son, Joseph, tells her his infant daughter's babysitter, a local teenager named Sage Jensen, has vanished, Linda can't help but ask questions. Her casual inquiries form the portrait of a girl under extreme pressure from her parents to be the perfect Mormon daughter, and it eventually emerges that Sage is the victim of a terrible crime at the hands of her own classmates—including the high school's academic and athletic superstars.
Linda's search for Sage will lead her to the darker streets of Utah and once again cause her to question whether the Mormon community's most privileged and powerful will be called to task for past sins.
Linda Wallheim, who is increasingly jaded with the Mormon church, has begun marriage counseling with her bishop husband, Kurt, hoping to reconcile their household and philosophical disagreements. On other days, Linda occupies herself with happier things, like visits to see her five grown sons and their families.
When Linda's eldest son, Joseph, tells her his infant daughter's babysitter, a local teenager named Sage Jensen, has vanished, Linda can't help but ask questions. Her casual inquiries form the portrait of a girl under extreme pressure from her parents to be the perfect Mormon daughter, and it eventually emerges that Sage is the victim of a terrible crime at the hands of her own classmates—including the high school's academic and athletic superstars.
Linda's search for Sage will lead her to the darker streets of Utah and once again cause her to question whether the Mormon community's most privileged and powerful will be called to task for past sins.
About the author
Mette Ivie Harrison received a Master's Degree in German literature from Brigham Young University in 1990 and a PhD in Germanic languages and literatures from Princeton University in 1995. She worked as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University until 1997, when she left to spend more time with her children and work on her fiction writing career. Her first young adult novel, The Monster in Me, was published in 2003. Her young adult works include Mira, Mirror, The Princess and the Hound, The Rose Throne, and Tris and Izzie. Her first novel for adults, The Bishop's Wife, was published in 2014. She also wrote a memoir entitled Ironmom: Training and Racing with a Family of 7 under Mette Harrison.
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