num_pages: 320
description: The perfect Mormon wife in the perfect Mormon town has a secret: she doesnt believe in God. Her husband has a secret too: hes in love with another man. Shes stood by her husband for two years tending their secrets fading into the easy background of Rexburg Idaho. But when she meets a man who calls himself X an untidy beer-drinking artist on a rambling sabbatical through the Western States her resolve to be the perfect wife finally crumbles.At first her affair with X is just another secret to keep. Hell be gone soon and no one will be the wiser. But she quickly realizes she can no longer be content with the structured wholesome life of a Rexburg woman. Though she fears her husbands reaction and the towns rejection she leaves to join X on his journey through the Rockies.Amid mountains and deserts surrounded by art and creation she discovers the realities of eternity. But just as she is beginning to build a life without religion a death in the family pulls her and X back to Rexburg. She must return to the place that created and confined her this time not as the perfect Mormon wife but as something monstrous to the people she loves.
language: English
title: Baptism for the Dead
publisher: CreateSpace