HOW I GOT CULTURED: A Nevada Memoir...

HOW I GOT CULTURED: A Nevada Memoir by Phyllis Barber (University of Nevada Press: $12.95; 189 pp., illustrated). Barber’s merry memoir describes the conflicts she experienced as a child, torn between the narrowly regimented world of her parents’ Mormonism and her desire to learn more about the world. The author, who longed to join her high school spirit group, was forced to endure lectures where young women were compared to roses, guarding their petals for their future husbands. Barber never mocks her parents or their beliefs, she merely expresses her own doubts and uncertainties in a humorous coming-of-age story.