"A brave and valuable book." --Ursula K. Le Guin, author of The Left Hand of Darkness

"Tender. . . . Flows slowly, a gentle stream of recollections . . . coalescing into eloquence." --Chicago Tribune

"A compelling story, compulsively readable, and its authorial voice--calm, keen-eyed, gracious but only to a point--still rings inside me." --Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander

"Moving. . . . A rich and revealing personal history. . . . Her story is one of family succor and sorrow; and the flickering origins of shame. This is an affecting and tender memoir as Ms. Freeman displays the dark wonder of the forces that shape our life choices." --Ron Carlson, author of Return to Oakpine

"Searing. . . . Revelatory. . . . There is always great pleasure for the reader in her exacting, sensory descriptions." --Los Angeles Review of Books

"The Latter Days arrived at four P.M. and I read until midnight, unable to leave. . . . Freeman sends rays of light straight into the reader's heart." --Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here
"Poignant. . . . Freeman writes with the clear voice of a person who's (mostly) shed the trappings of the past." --Publishers Weekly

"A novelist's account of her early life growing up Mormon in Utah and the family memories she kept hidden from herself. . . . highly readable. . . . A poignant, searching memoir of self discovery." --Kirkus Reviews