Fenton Johnson: 6 books

Book cover of Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays
by Fenton Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017

Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson's wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta....
Book cover of Keeping Faith

Keeping Faith

A Skeptic's Journey

by Fenton Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

Observing an encounter between Catholic and Buddhist monks in 1996 at the Abbey of Gethsemani, near where he grew up in rural Kentucky, Fenton Johnson found himself unable to make the sign of the cross. His distance from his childhood faith had become so great -- he considered himself a rational,...
Book cover of The Man Who Loved Birds
by Fenton Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016

Having taken great risks -- to immigrate to America, to take monastic vows -- Bengali physician Meena Chatterjee and Brother Flavian are each seeking safety and security when they encounter Johnny Faye, a Vietnam vet, free spirit, and expert marijuana farmer. Amid the fields and forests of a Trappist...
Book cover of Crossing the River
by Fenton Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015

Make no mistake: Martha Bragg Picket is a headstrong southern woman with a rebellious spirit, a characteristic her son Michael shares. Yet to see her after almost twenty years of marriage, it might no longer seem clear. A Yankee contractor's arrival in town catalyzes her dissatisfaction, leading her...
Book cover of Scissors, Paper, Rock
by Fenton Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016

Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbor, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole.
Book cover of Chimpanzee Rights

Chimpanzee Rights

The Philosophers’ Brief

by Kristin Andrews, Gary L Comstock, Crozier G.K.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018

Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty. While...
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