Nephi's Courage Story of a Bad Mormon |
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| Author:
| McFarlan, Rory |
| ISBN: | 979-8-5067-3548-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.99 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the 2020 Book Achievement Award in the Novel Category and 2020 International Book Awards Finalist in the LGBTQ+ Fiction Category. A heart-wrenching contemporary fiction novel. Nephi Willard is a practicing Mormon who loves God and his church. He grew up in Happy Valley, the center of LDS life in Utah, and faithfully served a mission. The perfect Mormon life would be his, if not for the fact that Nephi is gay, putting him at odds with his church leaders. No matter how well...
More DescriptionWinner of the 2020 Book Achievement Award in the Novel Category and 2020 International Book Awards Finalist in the LGBTQ+ Fiction Category. A heart-wrenching contemporary fiction novel. Nephi Willard is a practicing Mormon who loves God and his church. He grew up in Happy Valley, the center of LDS life in Utah, and faithfully served a mission. The perfect Mormon life would be his, if not for the fact that Nephi is gay, putting him at odds with his church leaders. No matter how well Nephi obeys the commandments, he doesn't seem to fit in at church, and his desire to follow the Mormon rules makes it difficult to fit in with the gay community. While he tries to reconcile his Mormon side with his gay side, Nephi navigates two worlds in a struggle to understand himself. When a new love interest introduces him to possibilities he never imagined, he must decide whether to embrace his nature or his faith, which takes this religious gay man on a journey that is both devastating and beautiful.