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Elders, March 2013
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Hogarth
March 2013
On Sale: March 5, 2013
293 pages
ISBN: 0307955699
EAN: 9780307955692
Kindle: B00985DYG0
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Fiction Family Life
A glorious debut that T.C. Boyle calls "powerful and
deeply moving" that follows two young Mormon missionaries in
Brazil and their tense, peculiar
friendship.
Elder McLeod—outspoken, surly, a
brash American—is nearing the end of his mission in Brazil.
For nearly two years he has spent his days studying the
Bible and the Book of Mormon, knocking on doors, teaching
missionary lessons—“experimenting on the word.” His new
partner is Elder Passos, a devout, ambitious Brazilian who
found salvation and solace in the church after his mother’s
early death. The two men are at first suspicious of each
other, and their work together is frustrating,
fruitless. That changes when a beautiful woman and her
husband offer the missionaries a chance to be heard, to put
all of their practice to good use, to test the mettle of
their faith. But before they can bring the couple to
baptism, they must confront their own long-held beliefs and
doubts, and the simmering tensions at the heart of their
friendship. A novel of unsparing honesty and beauty, Elders
announces Ryan McIlvain as a writer of enormous talent.
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