Adventures of the Soul: The Best Creative Nonfiction from BYU Studies
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To help celebrate our 50th anniversary, Doris R. Dant has compiled a new book of personal essays titled Adventures of the Soul: The Best Creative Nonfiction from BYU Studies.
Expect startling disclosures if you open this book, for these are personal essays—the reality show of literature. Sometimes with brutal candor, these essays trace gospel messages in the lives of the humble. A Xhosa black man with three teeth and a perfectly round head becomes the Savior of all races. A young mother recognizes her entire body belongs to her children—“take, eat!” A harmonica player is awakened and washed by irrigation water, the water of life. A returned missionary learns to see God’s mysterious hand in the life of a former foe. Miracles, love, pain, the substance of life—all can be found in these stories.
“Adventures is a page-turner! When there is a point to be illustrated in a talk or a family home evening discussion, readers are likely to reach for this book.”
— Karen Lynn Davidson
author of Our Latter-day Hymns: The Stories and the Messages
and coeditor of Eliza R. Snow: The Complete Poetry
“The stories are compelling because we see ourselves in them and sometimes the author sounds just like us.”
— Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
Director, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University
“The essays in this volume will provoke reactions from tears to laughter and give readers a window into the richness of the Mormon experience in the modern world.”
— Nathan B. Oman
Assistant Professor at William and Mary Law School
To help celebrate our 50th anniversary, Doris R. Dant has compiled a new book of personal essays titled Adventures of the Soul: The Best Creative Nonfiction from BYU Studies.
Expect startling disclosures if you open this book, for these are personal essays—the reality show of literature. Sometimes with brutal candor, these essays trace gospel messages in the lives of the humble. A Xhosa black man with three teeth and a perfectly round head becomes the Savior of all races. A young mother recognizes her entire body belongs to her children—“take, eat!” A harmonica player is awakened and washed by irrigation water, the water of life. A returned missionary learns to see God’s mysterious hand in the life of a former foe. Miracles, love, pain, the substance of life—all can be found in these stories.
“Adventures is a page-turner! When there is a point to be illustrated in a talk or a family home evening discussion, readers are likely to reach for this book.”
— Karen Lynn Davidson
author of Our Latter-day Hymns: The Stories and the Messages
and coeditor of Eliza R. Snow: The Complete Poetry
“The stories are compelling because we see ourselves in them and sometimes the author sounds just like us.”
— Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
Director, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University
“The essays in this volume will provoke reactions from tears to laughter and give readers a window into the richness of the Mormon experience in the modern world.”
— Nathan B. Oman
Assistant Professor at William and Mary Law School
Additional information
| Weight | 15 oz |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 9 × 6 × .625 in |
| Pages | 259 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| ISBN | 978-0-9425-2739-2 |
ISSN 2167-8472 (print); ISSN 2167-8480 (online)
