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Closing Circles: Trapped In The Everlasting Mormon Moment

Ronald B. Scott

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Description:Jed Russell awoke one morning to find that he had been transformed into an ex-husband. In early 1980's Westport, Connecticut, Jed Russell, a successful journalist and writer-for-hire, suddenly found himself joining the growing ranks of divorced men in their mid-thirties. But, Jed Russell was perplexed and unprepared. Hadn't he been a committed husband and partner? Hadn't he participated fully in caring for his children? Hadn't he encouraged Sarah, his newly-become ex-wife, to finish her studies and have a career? Hadn't sex with Sarah been fantastic right up through the night before she served him divorce papers? What went wrong with his marriage and what did he have to do to save it?Sarah had been encouraging Jed to seek psychiatric counseling for years, so despite his aversion for "mind-changers--psychologists and therapists and preachers and other posers who claim they can facilitate personal reconciliations with what God deemed irreconcilable in this life," he grudgingly begins therapy with Dr. "Quack-Quack" Rosenbaum, a compulsive, loopy psychiatrist who launches Jed on a long journey where the search for self-awareness quickly becomes an awareness of self-ignorance and denial. The physical distance between New York City where Jed works and Salt Lake City where he grew up at first seemed large enough to isolate him from the conflicting, convoluted influences of his traditional Mormon upbringing, but therapy and introspection were making it clear that things were not quite that simple. From his Hebrew and Yiddish speaking Mormon grandmother’s warning "Chozzer dreck macht goyisher kopf (Pig shit makes gentile brains)" to his dashed youthful anti-racist idealism, to his guilt for his ''natural man" sexual desires, Jed, like Alexander Portnoy (Portnoy’s Complaint), was carrying around more than his share of tsooris and schpilkes. "The big difference between Judah and Joseph is humor. Jews poke fun at themselves and their culture. Mormons don't have six millenia on their side. So, for now, we are a hypersensitive and decidedly humorless lot indeed..."At the same time, Jed continues working on the book he had begun that may have been the real cause of his divorce. A mix of autobiography and investigation that leads to obscure, but transforming events of life as well as those in the complex family history of his in-laws, the early drafts of book annoyed Sarah and every attempt to have excerpts read by family members ends up with comments such as "It pains me deeply to read your filth. I hope your children will forgive you because I won't..."Pressing on with his life and with his book, Jed tumbles into a new relationship with a caring woman (although she is the assistant to his psychiatrist and "way, way too young") and starts sorting out the fascinatingly twisted life of his late father-in-law, Ralph Orson Thompson ("Old ROT"), the wayward but loyal son of a prominent Mormon leader, a former OSS spy who contracted a mysterious disease during WWII. Three times divorced, ROT’s last wife Mary Martha (Sarah’s mother) is the same age as his daughter Mary Martha, and both are half-sisters of his namesake only son, and, of course, Sarah and her two sisters. Jed's book is taking him somewhere he never expected—deep into his own past and the polygamous roots and thorny realities of his own family, on all sides. It puts him face to face with modern-day traditional and "serial" polygamists and illuminates the banality of multiple partners and divorce in today's society that reaches far beyond the confines of Utah and Mormonism. What he finds will force him to re-consider everything he had ever believed about marriage, divorce, and fatherhood, and especially, what he believed about himself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Closing Circles: Trapped In The Everlasting Mormon Moment. To get started finding Closing Circles: Trapped In The Everlasting Mormon Moment, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 370

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Gray Dog Press

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1936178494

Description: Jed Russell awoke one morning to find that he had been transformed into an ex-husband. In early 1980's Westport, Connecticut, Jed Russell, a successful journalist and writer-for-hire, suddenly found himself joining the growing ranks of divorced men in their mid-thirties. But, Jed Russell was perplexed and unprepared. Hadn't he been a committed husband and partner? Hadn't he participated fully in caring for his children? Hadn't he encouraged Sarah, his newly-become ex-wife, to finish her studies and have a career? Hadn't sex with Sarah been fantastic right up through the night before she served him divorce papers? What went wrong with his marriage and what did he have to do to save it?Sarah had been encouraging Jed to seek psychiatric counseling for years, so despite his aversion for "mind-changers--psychologists and therapists and preachers and other posers who claim they can facilitate personal reconciliations with what God deemed irreconcilable in this life," he grudgingly begins therapy with Dr. "Quack-Quack" Rosenbaum, a compulsive, loopy psychiatrist who launches Jed on a long journey where the search for self-awareness quickly becomes an awareness of self-ignorance and denial. The physical distance between New York City where Jed works and Salt Lake City where he grew up at first seemed large enough to isolate him from the conflicting, convoluted influences of his traditional Mormon upbringing, but therapy and introspection were making it clear that things were not quite that simple. From his Hebrew and Yiddish speaking Mormon grandmother’s warning "Chozzer dreck macht goyisher kopf (Pig shit makes gentile brains)" to his dashed youthful anti-racist idealism, to his guilt for his ''natural man" sexual desires, Jed, like Alexander Portnoy (Portnoy’s Complaint), was carrying around more than his share of tsooris and schpilkes. "The big difference between Judah and Joseph is humor. Jews poke fun at themselves and their culture. Mormons don't have six millenia on their side. So, for now, we are a hypersensitive and decidedly humorless lot indeed..."At the same time, Jed continues working on the book he had begun that may have been the real cause of his divorce. A mix of autobiography and investigation that leads to obscure, but transforming events of life as well as those in the complex family history of his in-laws, the early drafts of book annoyed Sarah and every attempt to have excerpts read by family members ends up with comments such as "It pains me deeply to read your filth. I hope your children will forgive you because I won't..."Pressing on with his life and with his book, Jed tumbles into a new relationship with a caring woman (although she is the assistant to his psychiatrist and "way, way too young") and starts sorting out the fascinatingly twisted life of his late father-in-law, Ralph Orson Thompson ("Old ROT"), the wayward but loyal son of a prominent Mormon leader, a former OSS spy who contracted a mysterious disease during WWII. Three times divorced, ROT’s last wife Mary Martha (Sarah’s mother) is the same age as his daughter Mary Martha, and both are half-sisters of his namesake only son, and, of course, Sarah and her two sisters. Jed's book is taking him somewhere he never expected—deep into his own past and the polygamous roots and thorny realities of his own family, on all sides. It puts him face to face with modern-day traditional and "serial" polygamists and illuminates the banality of multiple partners and divorce in today's society that reaches far beyond the confines of Utah and Mormonism. What he finds will force him to re-consider everything he had ever believed about marriage, divorce, and fatherhood, and especially, what he believed about himself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Closing Circles: Trapped In The Everlasting Mormon Moment. To get started finding Closing Circles: Trapped In The Everlasting Mormon Moment, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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