What's up with Mormons and dogshit best-selling books?

  • MerryChristmas [any]
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    1 year ago

    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.