The Ya Ya Sisterhood, Mormon Style

Included in the diverse offerings of LDS paraphernalia at Latter-Day Harvest bookstore in downtown Palmyra is a selection of Mormon-endorsed fiction. Our favorite of the collection is A Modest Proposal, Book 1 in the Butterfly Box Series, your universal, looking-for-love story that fuses The Ya Ya Sisterhood with Mormon morality. The main character, a Utah native, loves fashion and has moved to New York City to pursue her dream of designing modest dresses so that LDS girls and mothers will never have to again have the fight over those "too-skimpy straps" while prom dress shopping. Having suffered the husbandless fate of many New York women and unwilling to accept a life sans man, she returns to Utah to spend time with her girlfriends and collect herself. With the knowledge that Mormon engagements often come quickly, she keeps her eye out for the right Mormon single who may offer her "modest proposal." Ashby considered buying the novel, but sixteen dollars persuaded him otherwise. He purchased instead a Samuel the Lamanite action figure for $4.99.