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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL*
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023

"I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah's Witness--it's one or the other."

Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays, voting in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him.

But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his congregation's presiding elder, catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between "in" and "out" isn't always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong disentanglement, Cox grapples with the group's cultish tactics--from gaslighting to shunning--and their resulting harms--from simmering anger to substance abuse--all while redefining its concepts through a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse, a concert hall, or a room full of books?

With great candour and disarming self-awareness, Cox takes readers on a journey from his early days as a solicitous door-to-door preacher in Montreal to a stint in New York City, where he's swept up in a scene of photographers and hustlers blurring the line between art and pornography. The culmination of years spent both processing and avoiding a complicated past, I Felt the End Before It Came reckons with memory and language just as it provides a blueprint to surviving a litany of Armageddons.

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  • Title I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
  • Author Daniel Allen Cox
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780735242104 / 0735242100
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.35 x 5.59 x 0.94 in (21.21 x 14.20 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Autobiographies, Ex-church members - Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Publishers Weekly, 03/13/2023, Page 0

About the author

DANIEL ALLEN COX is the author of four novels published by Arsenal Pulp Press, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and Maisonneuve. His essay "The Glow of Electrum," which appears in this book, was a finalist for a 2021 National Magazine Award and named a Notable essay in The Best American Essays 2021.

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