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Mission to America A Novel

Walter Kirn

From one of our most admired and visible young writers, a superb new novel about the collision between the forces of faith and an overstimulated, overfed, spiritually overextended America.

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The Charlie Kirk Show

Walter described the book as having a terrible cover and recounted its plot about two missionaries from an isolated, genetically inbred cult in the Montana mountains who are sent out in a van in 2005 to bring female converts to America, highlighting the clash of faith and modernity.

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Mission to America ... terrible cover ... story of two missionaries who grow up in what's basically a cult isolated in the mountains of Montana ... they're sent out in a van to try to get female conve...

— Episode: "Trust the Experts" Failed. What Now?

Episode: "Trust the Experts" Failed. What Now?

Walter described the book as having a terrible cover and recounted its plot about two missionaries from an isolated, genetically inbred cult in the Montana mountains who are sent out in a van in 2005 to bring female converts to America, highlighting the clash of faith and modernity.

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Mission to America ... terrible cover ... story of two missionaries who grow up in what's basically a cult isolated in the mountains of Montana ... they're sent out in a van to try to get female converts in America 2005 ... they leave their mountain valley having never watched television, being as innocent as Martians practically, and they hit the road to bring people to their belief system, a story about faith, modernity versus the old ways, and vulnerability.

Episode: "Trust the Experts" Failed. What Now?

Walter Kern described the book as a tale of two missionaries from an isolated Montana cult who are sent out to America, highlighting the clash between their oldworld faith and modern society.

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If you had to recommend one of your books to people who are watching or listening to this, what would you say?

Mission to America. Look at that terrible cover. I mean, they didn't even have AI as an excuse. And it's a story of two missionaries who grow up in what's basically a cult isolated in the mountains of Montana, which hasn't gotten out into the world for a hundred years. And it's become so inbred, literally genetically inbred, that they're sent out in a van to try to get female converts in America 2005. They leave their mountain valley having never watched television, being as innocent as Martians practically, and they hit the road to bring people to their belief system. It's a story about faith, modernity versus the old ways, and vulnerability as they encounter television for the first time.

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