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The bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air turned his investigative and literary powers upon the Church of Latter Day Saints in this unusual, double-headed book which alternates between the story of the founding of the Mormon religion by Joseph Smith in the 19th century with a true crime account of a vicious double murder committed by fundamentalist Mormons in the 1980s. Krakauer is a master storyteller, and though Mormon leaders have protested against linking the mainstream religious movement with violence, the book offers some further insight into the fundamentalist fervour that colours Westover’s troubled family life.
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