A young person's story of growing up gay in a rural Mormon town and the wild places where he found refuge.

This intimate record lays bare one person's experience growing up in a rural Mormon community and struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation with the religious doctrine of his childhood. Weaving together prose, poetry, and stories scrawled on the margins of high school notebooks, Jonathan T. Bailey encounters truth-seeing owls, anachronistic gourds, and the hard-edged realities of family and church. In When I Was Red Clay, he navigates desert landscapes, mental health, and the loss of faith with unflinching honesty and biting humor.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Published: 09/20/2022
ISBN: 9781948814638
Pages: 157

Review Citations: Library Journal 06/01/2022 pg. 153
Publishers Weekly 06/06/2022