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"""Searching for Faith, Family, and Inner Peace on the Back of a Motorcycle""Between 1846 and 1866, about 50,000 Mormons traveled the Mormon trail, burying more than 6,000 of the faithful along the way. Four generations ago, seven of Jana Richman's eight great-great grandmothers walked all or part of the 1,300-mile trek, from Nauvoo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River to Salt Lake City. Traveling on faith and little else, they endured unfathomable hardships--bitter cold, extreme heat, mud, icy river crossings, blizzards, buffalo stampedes, disease, hunger, and exhaustion--never stopping until they reached their promised land where they could be free to practice a religion that few outsiders understood and many violently condemned. One hundred and fifty years later, Jana Richman packs maps and a laptop computer on the back of a motorcycle and follows the route of her ancestors, searching for the peace and faith the women before her carried with so much confidence. Jana also searches for a clearer understanding of how her devoutly Mormon mother is able to reconcile an independent spirit and enormous inner strength with her intense belief in a patriarchal institution. Riding into the nation's heartland, visiting graveyards, chatting with missionaries, and soaking in the rituals of the faith she so casually shrugged off as a teenager, Richman begins to unravel her family's mysteries and confront her own long-held prejudices about the Mormon Church."

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Openhearted and uncommonly balanced. -- Entertainment Weekly <br><br> An extraordinary story . . . Like all great memoirs, Riding in the Shadows of Saints engages the heart while delighting the mind. --Fenton Johnson, author of Keeping Faith<br> <br> Jana Richman understands that we can never escape our connections to our ancestors, and neither would we want to Her story serves as an inspiration to us all. --Dawn Prince-Hughes, author of Songs of the Gorilla Nation

Openhearted and uncommonly balanced. -- Entertainment Weekly <br> An extraordinary story . . . Like all great memoirs, Riding in the Shadows of Saints engages the heart while delighting the mind. --Fenton Johnson, author of Keeping Faith<br> <br> Jana Richman understands that we can never escape our connections to our ancestors, and neither would we want to Her story serves as an inspiration to us all. --Dawn Prince-Hughes, author of Songs of the Gorilla Nation

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Jana Richman recently left Tucson and now lives in Salt Lake City.

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