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Zoe Murdock Fiction writer, teacher, author of Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy

Zoe Murdock
Zoe Murdock
Ojai, California
Member since: Apr, 2009
Last login: 08/12/2009
Last update : 08/12/2009
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  • I've been writing most my life, sometimes with the left side of my brain, as when I wrote technical documentation in the 1980's, and more recently and consistently with the right side of my brain, as when writing my new novel, Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy. Either way, my focus has always been on the human mind. My most basic desire is to know how people come to believe what they believe, and how those beliefs lead them to act in specific ways.

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  • Who gets to be in charge of creating reality?

    August 12, 2009

    • One of the themes of my book, Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy, is that people who are in the position of speaking for God are in a position of great power. They get to say what reality is not only in this life, but in the next as well. The code we use to make decisions about what is right and wrong, determines to a large degree, how we perceive the world and the others who inhabit ...
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  • Reading/Discussion on Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy at Tecolote Book Shop

    May 16, 2009

    • Zoe Murdock will read and discuss her new novel, Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy. The story is a riveting family drama that chronicles the devastation brought upon a young Mormon family when the father has a vision that leads him to become involved with a polygamist group run by a manipulative fundamentalist. The story is based on real events that took place in a small town in Utah ...
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  • The Montecito Journal Interview and Book Reading/Signing at Tecolote Book Shop

    May 6, 2009

    • Just back from an interview at The Montecito Journal re my book, "Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy."  I thought there might be smoke in the air as one of the first, of what's sure to be a season of California fires, was still burning. My husband and I had just run to the top of the mountains where the fire is last week and noticed how dry and brown the landscape was. I ...
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  • Interesting.

    What struck me as most true in your article was your statement that, ". . .

  • Blogging

    Nice start for a new blog. I worry too much - not about what I'll say, but I want to make sure it contributes something - so much nonsense in the world.

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