Homelands: A Memoir

by Neal Moore

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998539522
Publisher:	Tusker Press
Publication date:	01/12/2017
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Neal Moore is the co-author of Down the Mississippi
(Mark Twain Museum Press). A nomad, adventurer and storyteller, Neal's reporting has taken him from night-market meetings with Chinese cyber-dissidents to mountaintop encounters with approaching super typhoons. His work from North America, Africa and the Far East has appeared in Der Spiegel, The New Yorker and on CNN International.