In this collection of stories, a man struggles–literally–with his dead father. A housewife suffers from post-calling depression. The son of a polygamist comes to terms with the damage done by his upbringing. An unwed teen mother faces down her father. In these award-winning stories and a new novella, Todd Robert Petersen takes the reader on expeditions to Utah, Arizona, Brazil, Rwanda, and into the souls of twenty-first-century Mormons caught between their humanity, faith, and church.
In 2007 Long After Dark was given an ARTY Award for Best Book of Mormon Fiction by the editors of Salt Lake City Weekly.
Praise for Long After Dark
“Petersen’s work shows an awareness of American literature of the past several decades. These stories are post-post-modern, post-ironic, post-political, post-911, post-Roth, post-Carver, post-Eggers, post-multicultural, post-realism.”
William Morris from his March 3 2007 Review (link below)
“It has become increasingly clear to me that no assessment of the American West that fails to take Mormon culture into serious account can be considered entirely complete. Long After Dark is as revealing a glimpse into this community as we could wish for.”
Aaron Gwyn, author of Dog on the Cross
“Todd Robert Petersen represents a new breed of Mormon writer, creatively and sympathetically examining his faith through a series of probing, appealingly written short stories. His Mormon magic realism, his fully-rounded characters, and his appealing protagonists torn between church beliefs and humane actions make this collection of stories an especially attractive work.”
Richard Etulain, author of Reimagining the Modern American West
“Long After Dark sets a new standard for Mormon literature. Its language is pitch-perfect, its insight often shattering. From rural Utah to Rwanda, Petersen’s characters reveal the human and the spiritual to be inevitably fused. A world-wise, honest, and compassionate book.”
Long After Dark
Long After Dark
In this collection of stories, a man struggles–literally–with his dead father. A housewife suffers from post-calling depression. The son of a polygamist comes to terms with the damage done by his upbringing. An unwed teen mother faces down her father. In these award-winning stories and a new novella, Todd Robert Petersen takes the reader on expeditions to Utah, Arizona, Brazil, Rwanda, and into the souls of twenty-first-century Mormons caught between their humanity, faith, and church.
In 2007 Long After Dark was given an ARTY Award for Best Book of Mormon Fiction by the editors of Salt Lake City Weekly.
Praise for Long After Dark
Links to Reviews