Since her groundbreaking memoir In My Father's House, which recounts an agonizing break from fundamentalist polygamy, Dorothy Allred Solomon has continued to publish on the lives of Mormon women. Finding Karen springs from a decade of research into her paternal great-great grandmother, Karen Sorensen Rasmussen.
"Account of the author's Danish great-great-grandmother, who converted to Mormonism, emigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, and struggled with life in the new country and, like the author herself, the concept of plural marriage"--