Okay, so I read this latest book several years ago, but I'm still counting it. I finished Saints by Orson Scott Card. It follows the lives of the Kirkham family from England to the Salt Lake Valley and the good times and bad times they have. Anna, the mom, Dinah, the daughter and Robert and Charlie, the sons have all had a brush with Mormon missionaries in England. Three end up joining the church and the other, Robert, refuses to listen to anything they have to say about it. Anna, Dinah and Charlie all go to America to join the Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois. There, Dinah meets Joseph and Emma Smith. She becomes a plural wife to Joseph in secret. Dinah is also called Prophetess by many who know her. She helps people when they have need of prayer or blessing or a shoulder to cry on or an ear to listen.
After Joseph's death and the forced move out of Nauvoo, Dinah, Anna, Charlie and his family all go to the Salt Lake Valley to live out their lives in relative peace. Dinah lives to be 100 years old and sees the construction of both the Salt Lake and St. George Temples.
I still haven't been able to figure out if any of this book is true. If Dinah was a real person or not. It would be very interesting if she was real.
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