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    The Great Mormon Novel of the 21st Century
    The Great Mormon Novel of the 21st Century
    The Great Mormon Novel of the 21st Century
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    The Great Mormon Novel of the 21st Century

    By Theric Jepson

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    A writer tries to capture his changing people in prose, but what does a Mormon look like in the 21st century? He strives to answer that question through the creation of a General Relief Society President named Meredith Kimball . . . who has some problems much more immediate and troubling than her writer's.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAntemoff Ebookery
    Release dateJul 10, 2014
    ISBN9781311914156
    The Great Mormon Novel of the 21st Century
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    Theric Jepson

    Theric Jepson is a writer of fictions, and an editor of such works as The Fob Bible and Monsters & Mormons. He lives in El Cerrito, California, with his wife and sons and untold snails.

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      The Great Mormon Novel of the 21st Century

      Theric Jepson

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      Constraints

      I sit at my desk taptaptapping. If the great Mormon novel of the 20th century was ever written, it was set in the Rocky Mountains. To stick the 21st-century version there would be hopelessly shortsighted. The Church isn’t stuck in its mountain-home-so-dear any longer. But then, to ignore the weighty presence of the West specifically and America generally is to miss the Mormon experience entirely.

      So perhaps the great Mormon novel of the 21st century will need to be globetrotting, somehow connecting Saints from various countries. Maybe stick some povs in South America, Asia, maybe one in Africa . . . . But not so many voices that the novel becomes disjointed and falls apart. Like in that Babel movie. Wasn’t that rated R? Shouldn’t have watched that. I’ll bet it wasn’t rated R in Canada. I should be Canadian.

      Protagonist

      Perhaps it would work best if the main character was American (or even Utahn?) and he somehow tied together all the international povs. Maybe a General Authority? It seems like no one ever writes books about General Authorities. Why is that? Are people afraid of getting it wrong? Does it feel like sacrilege? But they write novels about Jesus.

      But a General Authority could travel around and meet all these other characters and somehow

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