Dancing With Crazy - Softcover

Emily Pearson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984668802 ISBN 13: 9780984668809

Publisher: Hullabaloo Press, 2011

Synopsis

Emily Pearson's memoir Dancing With Crazy is the true story of her personal derailment, both horrifically and humorously demonstrating what happens when mindless obedience to religious authority supersedes plain old common sense. As a young Mormon girl Emily gave up her own personal power, relinquished the ability to think for herself and allowed herself to blow with a wind that carried her from studying scriptures in the Sunday School classes of correctly clothed, righteous descendants of Mormon pioneers, to studying porn on San Francisco s Castro Street with her gay father and half naked drag queens, to drowning in depression in a stinky apartment in Hollywood, to puking in the toilet of a courting polygamist, to marrying her very own gay man in a Mormon Temple. After nearly losing her mind several times over, Emily disentangled herself from toxic and narcissistic personalities, walked away from a crippling religion and finally learned to think, act and live for herself. Dancing With Crazy is both heartbreaking and heart warming - an inspiring story filled with religious fundamentalists, transvestites, AIDS, love, abuse, obsession, visions, sex, Satan and salvation.

About this title

About the Author:

Emily Pearson is the author of the children's book Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed; and co-author of the book Fuzzy Red Bathrobe: Questions From the Heart for Mothers & Daughters. Emily is also an actress and filmmaker.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hullabaloo Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0984668802
• ISBN 13: 9780984668809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322