Comments on: Weekend (Re)Visitor: “Family History” http://www.motleyvision.org/2009/weekend-revisitor-family-history/ Mormon Arts and Culture Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:23:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Course Correction http://www.motleyvision.org/2009/weekend-revisitor-family-history/comment-page-1/#comment-38503 Course Correction Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:51:54 +0000 http://www.motleyvision.org/?p=3109#comment-38503 Thanks for bringing attention back to Todd Petersen's novella and to his short story collection. I reviewed Long Before Dark for Sunstone in 2007 and still think about the characters--especially the parents in the 3rd section. Particularly poignant is the father's lament that the church doesn't help his end of life situation, "They just tell us to make sure we've got our food storage and to give away the Book of Mormon. I want to know what's going to happen. I don't want to be so goddamn afraid of what's next." Although speculative, Family History is one of the most realistic pieces of Mormon fiction I've read. Thanks for bringing attention back to Todd Petersen’s novella and to his short story collection. I reviewed Long Before Dark for Sunstone in 2007 and still think about the characters–especially the parents in the 3rd section. Particularly poignant is the father’s lament that the church doesn’t help his end of life situation, “They just tell us to make sure we’ve got our food storage and to give away the Book of Mormon. I want to know what’s going to happen. I don’t want to be so goddamn afraid of what’s next.”
Although speculative, Family History is one of the most realistic pieces of Mormon fiction I’ve read.

]]> By: Th. http://www.motleyvision.org/2009/weekend-revisitor-family-history/comment-page-1/#comment-38494 Th. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:18:12 +0000 http://www.motleyvision.org/?p=3109#comment-38494 . Good choice, William. When <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2008/09/erotic-in-lds-lit-part-iii-test-case.html" rel="nofollow">I used <i>Family History</i> as a test case for my lds-eros series</a> --- <a href="http://thmazing.blogspot.com/2008/03/5th5.html" rel="nofollow">and in my original review</a> --- I focused on that same quotation, which in many ways sums up my own philosophy very well. You can read the novella as almost a manifesto if you choose, and I wonder how many do. I wonder if Mr Peterson does, or did when he wrote it? .

Good choice, William. When I used Family History as a test case for my lds-eros series — and in my original review — I focused on that same quotation, which in many ways sums up my own philosophy very well. You can read the novella as almost a manifesto if you choose, and I wonder how many do. I wonder if Mr Peterson does, or did when he wrote it?

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