Four Reviews
Publisher's Weekly Religion BookLine, January 29, 2002
Gentile Girl: Living with the Latter-day Saints
This refreshingly balanced memoir chronicles a Baptist woman's experiences during her two years as an undergraduate at Mormon-dominated Brigham Young University during the 1970s. "It's hard to have my faith under attack all the time," Forseth tells her sympathetic LDS roommate, and the reader feels her loneliness. But Forseth also explains how the BYU experience made her a more informed, committed Protestant. It is clear that she believes LDS doctrine to be wrong (and she includes three short appendices to hammer that point home), but she also presents the individual Mormons who figure into her narrative as three-dimensional people, not caricatures.