Read The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson. He was Mormon when he started writing it and he was fired from BYU shortly before it was published. In a way it's a personal narrative documenting his struggles coming to terms with the injustices of an institution that has shaped you, but in another way it is a thoughtful meditation on the relationship between mental illness, violence and religious trauma.
Read The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson. He was Mormon when he started writing it and he was fired from BYU shortly before it was published. In a way it's a personal narrative documenting his struggles coming to terms with the injustices of an institution that has shaped you, but in another way it is a thoughtful meditation on the relationship between mental illness, violence and religious trauma.