Mission to America
- ISBN-10
- 0307278557
- ISBN-13
- 9780307278555
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-10-10
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- Walter Kirn
Description
Mason LaVerle is a young man on a mission–a mission to save his people’s way of life. Mason was raised in a tiny, isolated Montanan sect, the church of the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles. But the Apostles face a dwindling membership, so Mason is sent on an outreach operation to bring back converts–specifically brides. As he discovers shopping malls, fast food, and faster women, the forces of faith and the forces of America collide, leading Mason to the brink of missionary madness.
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- 2000
- 607 pages
- Paperback
- Catholic University of America Press
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