Long After Dark - Softcover

Petersen, Todd Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978797108 ISBN 13: 9780978797102

Publisher: Zarahemla Books, 2007

Synopsis

A man struggles--literally--with his dead father. A housewife suffers from post-calling depression. The son of a polygamist comes to terms with the damage done by his upbringing. An unwed teen mother faces down her father. In these award-winning stories and a new novella, Todd Robert Petersen takes the reader on expeditions to Utah, Arizona, Brazil, Rwanda, and into the souls of twenty-first-century Mormons caught between their humanity, faith, and church.

About this title

About the Author:

Todd Robert Petersen was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Cedar City, Utah, with his wife and two children. He has a Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in creative writing and critical theory. He teaches fiction writing and visual studies at Southern Utah University. His personal website is located at www.toddpetersen.org.

Review:

"Todd Robert Petersen represents a new breed of Mormon writer, creatively and sympathetically examining his faith through a series of probing, appealingly written short stories. His Mormon magic realism, his fully-rounded characters, and his appealing protagonists torn between church beliefs and humane actions make this collection of stories an especially attractive work." --Richard Etulain, author of Reimagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art

"It has become increasingly clear to me that no assessment of the American West that fails to take Mormon culture into serious account can be considered entirely complete. LONG AFTER DARK is as revealing a glimpse into this community as we could wish for. With sentences painstaking and diligent, Todd Robert Petersen portrays characters struggling for and against their respective communities. He tells stories of a West that few non-Mormons have heard--but the stories are, nevertheless, our own." --Aaron Gwyn, author of Dog on the Cross

"The writing is openly accessible, seldom troubling . . . and provocative in a way that the majority of Mormons will accept rather than find threatening. The stories are realistic . . . shying away from postmodernism and turning instead to moral questions. Yet there is also something new here: one gets the sense that the old answers won't quite satisfy anymore." --Brian Evenson, author, from the foreword

About this edition

• Publisher: Zarahemla Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0978797108
• ISBN 13: 9780978797102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180