East Winds

East Winds is an impressive feat and a delight. This baptism-by-fire honeymoon speaks especially to readers - both Mormon and not - who grapple with the pressure of marrying and the taboos of divorce. Rueckert's investigation of this conundrum, using herself as the lab, is disciplined, focused, searchful, and moving with a clear thematic heart. Marvelous, descriptive, and informative-with experience and interviews that insightfully interrogate frameworks for companionship-her Augustinian tension between rebellion without rejection, and doubt without surrendering faith, offer a powerful engine, churning engine of a timeless story. The writing is alchemy, filled with shivery, illuminated moments alongside the winningly commercial. It brims with intelligence.