Before the Dawn

Before the Dawn by Dean Hughs is about a women who is called as Relief Society president during the great depression. I liked this book, it made me never want to be RS president because you have to know too much about people, but as always Dean Hughs did a great job of portraying the time period and making you feel what it was like to be there. The thing I really did not like about this book was the ending it left you wondering where the end of the book was, it didn't give me any closer.
All in all it was a good book but left me wanting just a little bit more.

Description as found at Deseret Book:
When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he is joking. "They'd all vote against me if you put my name up," she tells him, "and I'd vote with them." She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all. Why would the Lord want her? Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: "You lost your husband and you didn't give up. You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't. I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now. I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got." But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?