Riptide: A Fictionalized but Representative Account of Child Sexual Abuse in an LDS Family I will discuss my recently published novel, Riptide, in which I confront the ways in which we–as parents, as Mormons, as church leaders–sometimes become collaborators in the destruction of children. The book explores moral responsibility in the face of flawed systems and wounded selves and attempts to reveal the darker side of the Mormon psyche. In the novel, I re-examine some of the philosophical and psychological values of the Judeo-Christian tradition under the siege of the trauma of child sexual abuse and institutional betrayal.
Marion Smith, Maxine Hanks