Sins of the Saints
Johnny Townsend
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
In this collection of stories by ex-Mormon author Johnny Townsend, we see a missionary cope with the startling discovery that his companion has been translated off the face of the Earth. A teenage girl pretends to be her brother so she can "hold the priesthood" for at least a day.
A young man taught that loved ones watch over family members from the Other Side keeps imagining his grandmother catching him masturbating. A former prostitute, now a faithful Latter-day Saint, finds that some of her fellow congregants can't get beyond her past. A schizophrenic Single Adult leads a secret life no one in her congregation suspects.
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patriarchy in families, escaping oppressive families, religious sexual oppression, how doctrine creates mental illness, Mormons spying on each other, escaping oppressive cultures, gender roles in religion, faking mental illness, moral tests in families, fighting against gender norms, living without modern media, escaping Mormonism, escaping cults, gender roles in families, gay Mormon missionaries, religion and schizophrenia, weaponizing gossip, religious indoctrination of youth, justifying gossip, emotional manipulation by parents