ROAD TO EXILE: CONVERSION & EXCOMMUNICATION OF A MORMON MISFIT

By Paul Toscano

Excommunication, like revenge, is best served cold. Mine was-cold and quick on a clear autumn day.Excommunication! The word resonates like the bell of a gothic cathedral and seems as anachronistic as a rank of grinning gargoyles, as rebel monks, warrior popes, or heretics burning in a town square.Excommunication, one would have suppose, is a rite that had been relegated long ago to a footnote beyond the margins of modern life, a practice outdated as the related ritual of exorcism that serves the same end-the expulsion of the evil one.On September 19, 1993, the evil one to be expelled was I. In that same month five other Mormon writers, believers, and critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were also excommunicated in a leader-orchestrated purge that would leave us branded and stigmatized as the infamous "September Six."This memoir is the story of how I cam to be numbered among them. --Paul ToscanoCover design by Andrew Shaw and drawing by Mary Toscano

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500235741
• ISBN13: 9781500235741
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.9" x 5.5"