Youβre sure to hear a few such discordant notes as Brooksβs fingers glide up and down the scale, but to focus on such slips overlooks the bookβs overall melody, the song of a Mormon girl whose nascent faith is challenged, lost, found, and refined by fire throughout. Sheβs the prodigal daughter telling only a little about years of riotous living, more about the faith of her youth and the re-visioned faith of her adulthood. Memoirs arenβt intended to tell a disconnected story of oneβs life, but to invite readers into an intensely subjective world. The best memoirs arenβt written as how-to manuals (like the Marie Osmond brand beauty and fashion instructions Brooks read as an awkward, body-conscious young girl. Youβre sure to laugh out loud as she spends a chapter pillorying such fluff). Instead, as theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer observed, good memoirs awaken βa sense of what it might be like to be someone else or to live in another time or culture, and they tell us about ourselves, stretch our imagination, and enrich our experience.β2 American publisher William Sloan says readers of such works are not so much saying to the author βTell me about you,β but rather βTell me about me; as I use your book and life as a mirror.β