Immortal for Quite Some Time

SCOTT ABBOTT is professor of humanities, philosophy, and integrated studies at Utah Valley University.

"Thank you, Scott Abbott, for doing the work that must be done: for being brave and loving and true-to the memory of your brother, to the quietly terrible realities of Mormon family life, to the brokenness of Mormon masculinity and its beauties as well. This book opens the door to a long overdue conversation about the suffering men in our community bear without speaking. I will give this book to the men I love and admire." -Joanna Brooks, author of Book of Mormon Girl and coauthor of Saving Alex "In the search to understand his brother, Abbott begins his own meditations on family, religion, politics, sexuality, betrayal, and the things we carry. It is brave and honest writing." -Jeff Metcalf, author of Requiem for the Living: A Memoir "Scott Abbott has written a unique and amazing book. By turns wrenching, hilarious, deliberative, poetic, and outraged, Immortal for Quite Some Time is a narrative meditation about brotherly love, religion, sexuality, and freedom. Anyone who cares about any of those topics (in other words, I hope, everybody) should read it." --Martha C. Nussbaum, Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago