The Days Are Gods
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The Days Are Gods

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Days Are Gods

About this book

"I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bulletin, and these gentlemen came to help, " Brady, the real estate agent, says. Welcome to Wellsville, Utah. Good-bye, L.A.

Liz Stephens has come from Los Angeles to Utah for graduate school, and her brief stint working on a Taco Bell commercial is not much in the way of preparation for taking on the real West. In The Days Are Gods Stephens chronicles a move that is far more than a shift in geographical coordinates. With husband and dogs in tow, she searches for an authentic connection to this new community, all the while knowing that as an outsider she will never really belong. And yet precisely as an outsider, Stephens has a unique perspective on belonging, one that colors her accounts of attending her first small-town rodeo, living in the thick of a thriving Latter Day Saints religious community, raising goats in her laundry room, and observing the town's racialized Founder's Day battle reenactments. In her frank and particular way, Stephens shows how the culture of memory, as our inheritance, offers a balance to our brief attention spans and our brief lives.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Series Page
  3. The Days Are Gods
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue
  8. Part 1
  9. Hot Air
  10. So Manifest It, Man
  11. Part 2
  12. Utah Looked Like This
  13. Checking Fence
  14. Wary
  15. Audellā€™s Carpenterā€™s and Builderā€™s Guide
  16. Powwow at the Ball Field
  17. Winter
  18. Suddenly, What You Do Is What You Do
  19. Table of Contents
  20. Process
  21. The Magic Trick
  22. Groundwork
  23. Gardening
  24. The History of Other People
  25. Spring
  26. The Box C
  27. Student Teaching
  28. Memorial Day
  29. Yoked
  30. Part 3
  31. That Bright Summer
  32. Gus
  33. Chicken Lessons
  34. Heavy Is the Crown
  35. The Night Life around Here
  36. The Windows of Wellsville
  37. Notches
  38. Part 4
  39. Honey
  40. The Local
  41. Finding Oklahoma
  42. Oh Country Roads
  43. Wednesday Night Lights across from the Stop-n-Go
  44. Avoiding Jackson Hole
  45. The Reenactors
  46. Lots Four and Five, Range One West of the Salt Lake Meridian
  47. In My Defense
  48. Vision upon Vision
  49. Cowboy Up
  50. Foundersā€™ Day
  51. Monument to Belief, Middle of Nowhere, Utah
  52. Part 5
  53. Shooting Stars Lit Up the Yard
  54. Acknowledgments
  55. Books in the Series