This Is The Place
By Carolyn Howard-Johnson
AmErica House
ISBN 1588513521
Women's Fiction / General Fiction

Reviewed by: Kristie Leigh Maguire, MyShelf.com
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson tells it like it 'was' in her novel, THIS IS THE PLACE. The setting for this novel is the Utah of the early fifties. Carolyn Howard-Johnson gives the reader a rare insider's glimpse into Mormon society as few outsiders ever have the chance to view it.

Carolyn has a fascinating way with words. An example of this is illustrated in the following passage from This Is The Place.

"Brock and Marion wore the garments that a wedding in the L.D.S. Temple entitled them to wear under their clothes, whether work clothes or best, in summer and winter, awake or asleep. Garments were one piece with both sleeves and legs that insisted on a modest cut of outer clothing to cover them. They had little embroidered openings to mark the navel and nipples and were sometimes edged with a tiny faux crochet trim. They would be a symbolic and perpetual reminder that binds two together and those two to their spiritual heritage. He was the figurative God of the household who would some day hold that place in the highest degree of heaven. She was the strength of the family to be by his side in this life and the next.

The clay that brought their union together and made it right for them was passion so their garments were sometimes folded and arranged in a soft, white pile while they stroked each other into ecstasy. This was difficult for them for they felt it was a violation of their commitment to each other and to their vows, the times they chose to let their garments stay on. Their desire was too intense to take the time to remove the unwieldy underwear worn next to the skin like long johns so they worked around the constriction of a full body suit as best they could."

Carolyn Howard-Johnson had dreamed of writing 'that great American novel' since her early years. She has accomplished her dreams with the publication of THIS IS THE PLACE. Another great American novel, GONE WITH THE WIND, depicted the people and the times of the mysterious land of the antebellum South. Carolyn Howard-Johnson's great American novel, THIS IS THE PLACE, depicts the people and the times of the mysterious land of Utah in the fifties. Watch out for Carolyn Howard-Johnson - she is going to be one of 'the greats' in literature.

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Kristie Leigh Maguire is the author of Desert Triangle, Emails from the Edge, co-author of No Lady and Her Tramp, contributor to Calliope's Mousepad: Women Writers Online.