The Latter Days: A Memoir
by Judith Freeman /
2016 / English / EPUB
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An arresting, lyrical memoir about the path the author
took—sometimes unwittingly—out of her Mormon upbringing and through
a thicket of profound difficulties to become a writer.
An arresting, lyrical memoir about the path the author
took—sometimes unwittingly—out of her Mormon upbringing and through
a thicket of profound difficulties to become a writer.
At twenty-two, Judith Freeman was working in the Mormon
church–owned department store in the Utah town where she’d grown
up. In the process of divorcing the man she had married at
seventeen, she was living in her parents’ house with her
four-year-old son, who had already endured two heart surgeries. She
had abandoned Mormonism, the faith into which she had been born,
and she was having an affair with her son’s surgeon, a married man
with three children of his own. It was at this fraught moment that
she decided to become a writer. In this moving memoir, Freeman
explores the circumstances and choices that informed her course,
and those that allowed her to find a way forward. Writing with
remarkable candor and insight, she gives us an illuminating,
singular portrait of resilience and forgiveness, of memory and
hindsight, and of the ways in which we come to identify our truest
selves.
At twenty-two, Judith Freeman was working in the Mormon
church–owned department store in the Utah town where she’d grown
up. In the process of divorcing the man she had married at
seventeen, she was living in her parents’ house with her
four-year-old son, who had already endured two heart surgeries. She
had abandoned Mormonism, the faith into which she had been born,
and she was having an affair with her son’s surgeon, a married man
with three children of his own. It was at this fraught moment that
she decided to become a writer. In this moving memoir, Freeman
explores the circumstances and choices that informed her course,
and those that allowed her to find a way forward. Writing with
remarkable candor and insight, she gives us an illuminating,
singular portrait of resilience and forgiveness, of memory and
hindsight, and of the ways in which we come to identify our truest
selves.(With black-and-white photographs throughout.)
(With black-and-white photographs throughout.)