"I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself.
You cannot be queer and a Jehovah's Witness-it's one or the other."
Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion
considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting
in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into
independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would
have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on
homosexuality would for him. But even years after whispers of his
sexual orientation reached his congregation's presiding elder,
catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between "in" and
"out" isn't always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong
disentanglement, Cox grapples with the group's cultish tactics-from
gaslighting to shunning-and their resulting harms-from simmering
anger to substance abuse-all while redefining its concepts through
a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse, a concert hall, or a
room full of books? With great candour and disarming
self-awareness, Cox takes readers on a journey from his early days
as a solicitous door-to-door preacher in Montreal to a stint in New
York City, where he's swept up in a scene of photographers and
hustlers blurring the line between art and pornography. The
culmination of years spent both processing and avoiding a
complicated past, I Felt the End Before It Came reckons with memory
and language just as it provides a blueprint to surviving a litany
of Armageddons.
General
| Imprint: |
Viking
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| Authors: |
Daniel Allen Cox
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
240 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7352-4210-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-7352-4210-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780735242104 |
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