(I'm quoting from the review, because I don't have the book in front of me) I'm not sure where to begin, except to say that the kind of "Mormonism" the author describes is nothing like the "Mormonism" I've observed and experienced. In the "Mormonism" I'm familiar with (and thousands of others like me), nobody is "sent" to BYU, although although some women go just to find a husband -- people with priorities like that, male or female are a waste of space at any university. There's no "one true wedding partner destined by God". Not just Americans, but even Mormons would consider a life "that included the recycling of condoms through vigorous washing" to be a "bizarre life" indeed.It was a mistake for the author to blame her problems on a religion she so thoroughly misunderstood, and it's a mistake for anyone to judge the Mormon church one way or the other based on the version of Mormonism presented in this book.