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| | Reviews: The Conversion of Jeff Williams |
 | | So often in the Mormon world (actually in almost all of Christendom) the fallen are not represented in their fullness but in a sort of half-state reserved for those whose primary purpose is to tell a story in which the white and delightsome people are victorious. |
 | | Thayer’s narrator, Jeff Williams, is a callow, self-absorbed teenager who is called to spend the summer with his cousin, Christopher Lowery, who is the son of a multi-millionaire stake president who, like Stephen Covey, got rich by marketing and selling gospel principles. |
 | | Jeff rightfully believes he’s being shuttled off to a kind of spiritual fat camp, where he can cultivate his testimony in the presence of his talented, pious, wealthy cousin. |
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