{"id":49657,"date":"2022-08-07T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=49657"},"modified":"2022-08-05T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T22:17:25","slug":"joseph-smith-and-the-mormons-by-noah-van-sciver-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/joseph-smith-and-the-mormons-by-noah-van-sciver-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49668\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Joseph-Smith-and-the-Mormons-Noah-Van-Sciver-BookDragon-519x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Joseph-Smith-and-the-Mormons-Noah-Van-Sciver-BookDragon-519x800.jpg 519w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Joseph-Smith-and-the-Mormons-Noah-Van-Sciver-BookDragon.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nAward-winning Noah Van Sciver shares in his author\u2019s note he was born into an LDS family descended from a husband of Brigham Young\u2019s daughter, Elizabeth. After his parents\u2019 divorce when he was 12, he began to learn \u201cabout Joseph Smith and everything that [his] Sunday school lessons never mentioned.\u201d He eventually \u201cimmersed\u201d himself in a years-long independent study to create this title: \u201cI <em>needed\u00a0<\/em>to draw this book because I needed to know who Joseph Smith was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result is an extraordinary, full-color chronicle about an almost illiterate teen from a \u201cscrying\u201d family (the Smiths, reputed to be frauds, used a \u201cseer\u201d stone to allegedly locate treasures), who managed to convince thousands that he was a prophet in direct communication with God, despite committing acts of financial, legal, moral, and marital fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Although Van Sciver insists \u201cthis is not a work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but an independent art project,\u201d the publication page states \u2013 most interestingly \u2013 in bold, \u201cThe original art for this book resides in the library of Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, and is available for study on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Sciver\u2019s approach here is \u201cto tell the story of Joseph Smith as straightforwardly as [he could] and let readers draw their own conclusions.\u201d Gobsmacked reactions indubitably await.<\/p>\n<p><b>YA\/Special interest<\/b>: Younger\u00a0audiences with an interest in the origins of major religions will discover multi-layered, you-can\u2019t-make-this-stuff-up history here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Joseph-Smith-and-the-Mormons-\/pid=9761968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, July 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Award-winning Noah Van Sciver shares in his author\u2019s note he was born into an LDS family descended from a husband of Brigham Young\u2019s daughter, Elizabeth. 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