Dancing With Crazy [Kindle Edition]

Emily Pearson (Author)

Book Description

Emily Pearson’s memoir Dancing With Crazy is the true story of her personal derailment, both horrifically and humorously demonstrating what happens when mindless obedience to religious authority supersedes plain old common sense. As a young Mormon girl Emily gave up her own personal power, relinquished the ability to think for herself and allowed herself to blow with a wind that carried her from studying scriptures in the Sunday School classes of correctly clothed, righteous descendants of Mormon pioneers, to studying porn on San Francisco’s Castro Street with her gay father and half naked drag queens, to drowning in depression in a stinky apartment in Hollywood, to puking in the toilet of a courting polygamist, to marrying her very own gay man in a Mormon Temple. After nearly losing her mind several times over, Emily disentangled herself from toxic and narcissistic personalities, walked away from a crippling religion and finally learned to think, act and live for herself.
Dancing With Crazy is both heartbreaking and heart warming – an inspiring story filled with religious fundamentalists, transvestites, AIDS, love, abuse, obsession, visions, sex, Satan and salvation.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Emily Pearson is the author of the children's book Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed; and co-author of the book Fuzzy Red Bathrobe: Questions From the Heart for Mothers & Daughters. Emily is also an actress and filmmaker.

Product Details

• File Size: 675 KB
• Print Length: 322 pages
• Publisher: Hullabaloo Press (October 23, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005WKCQE6
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,853 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling story told with humor and insight April 10, 2012

By Laurie Lark

Format:Paperback

I found this book to be completely engaging and well written. Emily found a way to tell her story with humor and at the end I was impressed with the wisdom her journey cultivated. I have met the author and have witnessed her poise and enthusiasm for life...she used all of her negative experiences as a compost pile to plant new seeds of insight and self-actualization. She has woven her journey into prose that captivated my attention. It was hard to put the book down!
The stories are amazing and fascinating and as someone who was raised in the Mormon church, I can confirm how easy it can be to listen to all of the "authoritative voices" instead of that clear one that eventually found its way to consciousness within Emily.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Cheers to Emily December 5, 2011

By Kim Simpson

Format:Paperback

Cheers to Emily - with this book, she manages to validate and claim the often harrowing past she's written about even while giving it the heave ho. Ultimately, her engaging/wince-inducing story is about granting oneself the power of self-expression and allowing oneself to be the boss. While this is always easier said than done, Emily's evidently done both.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent November 6, 2011

By Cheryl Nunn

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I read this book in less than 24 hours; I simply could not put it down! I began it on a Sunday night, and Monday I got up early to read it before work and just would not take calls or go to work until I finished it. I can't remember finding a book so compelling that I let it get in the way of my highly driven work schedule. I was sad when it came to an end. Emily promises this is the first of a series on topics she mentions in the book. I'm looking forward to reading the others. I found Emily's wisdom and courage to overcome difficult circumstances and ability to be honest about them to be incredibly inspirational.

More About the Author

Emily Pearson is the author of the memoir "Dancing With Crazy"; the children's book "Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed"; and co-author of the book "Fuzzy Red Bathrobe: Questions From the Heart for Mothers & Daughters." Emily also works in the film industry as an actress, director and producer.