Zombies for Jesus

by Johnny Townsend

Overview

A teenage Mormon girl finds that her house is haunted by Joseph Smith's wife. A woman copes with her sexual relationship after learning her husband is gay. A college instructor confronts his own racism. A plastic surgeon accidentally discovers a new life form. A timid gay man unleashes his inner beast through a role-playing game. God's wives fight for supremacy amongst themselves. These stories show us the expanding variety of topics developed in the burgeoning field of Mormon literature. Stephen Carter, editor of Sunstone magazine, has called Johnny Townsend "an important voice in the Mormon community."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012439406
Publisher:	BookLocker.com, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	831 KB

About the Author

Johnny Townsend earned an MFA in fiction writing from Louisiana State University. He has published in Newsday, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Humanist, The Progressive, Glimmer Train, The Massachusetts Review, Sunstone, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and in the anthology In Our Lovely Deseret: Mormon Fictions.

Editorial Reviews

Johnny Townsend writes short stories about the inner lives of Mormons and ex-Mormons with a great deal of compassion. It is the humanity of these struggles that [he] portrays so well. Large theological questions and small lives make Townsend's characters fully human.

Kel Munger

Townsend's lively writing style and engaging characters make for stories which force us to wake up, smell the (prohibited) coffee, and review our attitudes with regard to reading dogma so doggedly. These are tales which revel in the individual tics and quirks which make us human, Mormon or not.

A.J. Kirby