description: What do you do when you find out that the family secret will send your dad to hell? Home Yesterday tells Emily’s coming-of-age story as she realizes her Mormon parents divorced in the 1980s because her dad is gay. She navigates moving away from her father in California to a small town in Utah, where she struggles to reconcile Mormon church doctrine and the love she has for her dad. She must survive in the small town as a pariah from a step-family, in which her step-father is sexually inappropriate and abusive. She learns that “fatherless” daughters are something to be suspicious of, and that her mother will not protect her. All of this happens against the backdrop of her mother becoming increasingly unstable and emotionally abusive. Emily must do whatever she can to please her mother, which results in pressure to be perfect and eventual estrangement. Through it all, she learns that her father is safe and loving. She moves past the ideologies of her childhood and church in order to fully embrace a relationship with him as a loving parent.
title: Home Yesterday: Memories of My Father