Edenfield

The year is 1962 and young Weldon Thatcher is coerced by his mother and the local preacher into attending Edenfield College, a Protestant icon and a place straightaway paranoid about influences from the outside world. Though Weldon is fashioned from a childhood of perfect Sunday school attendance, he brings to Edenfield a determined curiosity to know what lies beyond the boundaries of God's moral code and the stuff of religion. Wresting and exacting, Edenfield is an all-embracing, coming-of-age account of a young man in transition and caught up in the most intricate aspects of faith-based academia, one rooted in the narrowed tenets of fundamentalism: from classroom to dorm room, from prayer meeting to revival meeting, from spirituality to sacrilege, from lust to love-its effects holding sway even after thirty years and well beyond what Weldon thought was his last goodbye. Insightful and forthcoming, Edenfield dares a glimpse into the influences of a denominational institution and those with the conviction of a higher power; a firsthand look at what rails within its walls: what rankles and what inspires, what causes us to seethe and what begs for our forgiveness; what shakes us to the core of our funny bone, and what shamefully fastens itself to those most unsuspecting.

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