M. J. Young

MARGARET YOUNG is a writer from Provo. She recently won the Utah Arts Council publication prize for her short story collection, Elegies and Love Songs.

Outsiders

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 1

My friend Junie and I were Utah Mormons. We knew no blacks till we were teenagers. The summer I was sixteen and she eighteen, the Peace Corps hired Dad to train volunteers. It was then…