Another Eve: Shame and Desire on the Oregon Coast

When she walks away from the Mormon church and a twenty-five-year marriage, Elissa Minor abandons the only life she's ever known to embrace her identity as a queer woman. In this intimate memoir, she explores shame, desire, beauty, and acceptance. Minor realizes that her desire isn't the problem but the solution. Finding solace outside of the church in the wilderness that surrounds her, she eventually begins to understand what it really means to be pure and worthy. On the rugged terrain of the northern Oregon coast, Minor discovers passion and harmony in the grip of nature and in the arms of a lover who will become her wife. In the salty sea air, she learns that her own queerness—though less-charted territory—is like her love of backwoods hiking and that to accept her sexuality, she must take full pleasure in the wild that encompasses her. Poignant and powerful, Another Eve re-examines past truths and celebrates honoring oneself and living authentically. For Minor, the end of her transformation is only the beginning.

Pagina's: 256, Paperback, Oregon State University