"A heart-wrenching story of love, family, and spirituality." --People Magazine From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel...
"A heart-wrenching story of love, family, and spirituality." --People Magazine From the
New York Times bestselling author of
Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.
Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's words a love so captivating it transcends language.
As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies, and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next. And when the religious ecstasies of the Great Awakening begin to take hold, igniting a new era of zealotry, Nathaniel and Arthur search for a path out of an impossible situation, imagining a future for themselves which has no name. Their wives and children must do the same, looking beyond the known world for a new kind of wilderness, both physical and spiritual.
Set during the turbulent historical upheavals which shaped America's destiny and following in the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter,
All the World Beside reveals the very human lives just beneath the surface of dogmatic belief. Bestselling author Garrard Conley has created a page-turning, vividly imagined historical tale that is both a love story and a crucible.
Author: Garrard Conley
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780525537342
About the AuthorGarrard Conley is the
New York Times bestselling author of the memoir
Boy Erased, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast
UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America. His work has been published by
The New York Times,
Oxford American, Time, and
Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University.
