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Title: Good Mormon potboiler
Review: Even though I'm a former Mormon, I found this book to be very entertaining. "Deseret" follows the adventures of Mormon convert Shadrach Tompkins who immigrates from England to America in 1838 to join the Mormon "Zion" in Missouri. The story follows the gamut of Mormon frontier history and Tompkins is at all of the pivotal moments, meets all the important real-life characters, etc.Along the way he marries a number of different women, gets caught up in LDS controversies and goes from owning only the shirt on his back to becoming one of the wealthiest men in Utah.I don't know if author Eric Alter is LDS; probably not since his book has some bodice-busting moments. But it is an entertaining book whether one is LDS or not.
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