Happiest Misery: My Life as a Mormon

Passion. Sweat. Hunger. Intensity. Jared Lonergan bares his soul’s quest for eternal fulfillment to achieve ultimate joy. Facing rampant roadblocks of turmoil, and heart-wrenching twists, Jared can’t seem to win. But clusters of hunger drive him to seek it all. He chases, scrapes, cries, and silently pulls himself up a never-ending hill toward nothingness. Death, eating disorders, self- and peer-judgment, Christianity...sexual frustration, sexual fascination, sexual consummation... Happiest Misery: My Life as a Mormon delivers a powerful and true representation of the visceral components of the Mormon Church. This is not at all a piece of anti-Mormon literature; to the contrary—Jared chronicles his soul’s aching wish to find his true love and the joy promised to him if he follows the precepts of the Gospel. In doing so, he finds that his efforts fall short of the promises made to him by the leaders of his youth. Will he find her, his truest love? Will his soul dramatically fall into the chasm of eternal damnation? Or will he succeed?