“Suburban Gospel,” by Mark Beaver

Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl Mark Beaver’s Suburban Gospel is one more memoir of an adolescent wandering toward adulthood, a Bible Belt Baptist southern version of Roth’s Portnoy but without the gnawing sense of psychological guilt expiated on the analyst’s couch.  It is, on the other hand, exuberantly “guilt-edged,” the saga of a young man […]