Edenfield

Thoroughly involving, Edenfield is, in whole, the unraveling of naivete amidst the swell of lust, love, and betrayal. 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. At its deepest level, 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 grounded 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...