Summary

Chapter 29, “Graduation,” was the final chapter of Part 2. Tara was back at BYU from studying abroad and she questioned her obligation to a polygamist marriage. She recalled her great-great-grandmother, Anna Mathea, who immigrated to Idaho from Norway to practice her Mormon religion. Anna left her fiancé in Norway and became the second wife of a local farmer, fearing his first wife. Tara decided she would “never be a plural wife” despite what the church asked of her (246). Tara’s parents visited her at BYU a couple weeks before her interview for the Gates scholarship that would fund her graduate study. She learned that her mother’s medicines continued to gain fame. Her father defended a Holocaust conspiracy over dinner and Tara found his logic out of place at her university. She felt both far away from and continuously affected by her old life. She...