Homelands: A Memoir Contributor(s): Moore, Neal (Author) |
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ISBN: 099853952X ISBN-13: 9780998539522 Publisher: Tusker Press OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon) - Travel | Africa - Republic Of South Africa |
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.52 lbs) 214 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: At age 19, Neal Moore, a drug-addled sixth-generation Mormon, bids farewell to his cancer-stricken mother and grants her dying wish: to become a missionary.Accepting an assignment to the South Africa Cape Town Mission, Elder Moore goes from the comfortable, upper-class suburbs of his native Los Angeles into a nation emerging, sometimes violently, from the strictures of racial apartheid. It |