Mormon Lives: A Year in the Elkton Ward by Susan Taber

Wow--what a fabulous book. In the 1980s, the Elkton Ward participating in a special project where extensive records--including interviews with every ward member who was willing--were made. This book is a compilation of those interviews. The diversity represented in this book is amazing. I expected it to feel dates (these interviews were, after all, conducted a generation ago), but virtually every line in here could have been spoken yesterday. Highly, highly recommended.