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By Neal Moore

At age 19, Neal Moore, a drug-addled sixth-generation Mormon, bids farewell to his cancer-stricken mom and can provide her death want: to turn into a missionary. Accepting an task to the South Africa Cape city challenge, Elder Moore is going from the cozy, upper-class suburbs of his local l. a. right into a state rising, occasionally violently, from the strictures of racial apartheid. It’s the early Nineteen Nineties, a risky interval among Nelson Mandela’s unencumber from felony and ascension to strength. And nowhere is the fight extra excessive than within the black townships the place Moore is assigned to absorb place of dwelling. yet this naive and stricken “soldier of God,” who toys with suicide due to the deaths of an idolized older brother and his mom, unearths solace within the friendship and harmony of the folks he’s been despatched to coach, the Xhosa. Evocative, worrying and every now and then hilarious, Homelands is the real story of 1 youth’s discovery that there's a global past one’s personal tradition and ideology, set opposed to the backdrop of a kingdom in movement, suffering to outline itself at the street to freedom.

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