Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began by Joanna Brooks, Alex Cooper

Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began

Joanna Brooks, Alex Cooper

256 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir religion challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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When Alex Cooper was fifteen years old, life was pretty ordinary in her sleepy suburban town and nice Mormon family. At church and at home, Alex was taught that God had a plan for everyone. But something was gnawing at her that made her feel diffe...

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