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Synopsis
**First Runner Up: 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award (General Fiction)**
**Short Listed for 2012 Balcones Fiction Prize**
**Short Listed for 2012 First Horizon Book Award**
On a rain-swept Florida highway, eco-terrorist Edie Aberdeen is robbed and left for dead. When two police officers rescue her, she offers nothing of where she came from and nothing of what she fled three-thousand miles to leave behind.
While recovering from her ordeal, she is taken in by several members of Christ by the Sea, an evangelical mega-church whose pastor preaches a fiery brand of charismatic activism. But the praying in tongues and the energy with which the congregation worships--combined with a focus on conservation and end-times theology--refuse to grant Edie freedom from her dark and ever-encroaching past.
Green Gospel deftly navigates past and present while moving across the landscapes of California, Florida, and Oregon. Several unforgettable characters narrate this vivid debut novel that examines the roots of fundamentalism; the powerful sway of community; and cuts to the heart of the question of whether or not people change.
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"Assuming you go ahead and read the first page of Fiore's marvelous debut, the literary magic that follows will render you astonished, and you'll be hard pressed to put it down. The gorgeous sentences in this book keep coming, the characters force you awake, and the unforgettable story is real and true."
-Elizabeth Crane, author of You Must Be This Happy to Enter
"A powerfully unfolding story of the changing landscapes of our time--physical, cultural, and personal. With Green Gospel, L.C. Fiore establishes himself as a writer of extraordinary sensitivity and insight."
-Alex Shakar, author of Luminarium
From the Inside Flap
"Brilliant...gorgeous without being showy.... Patches of the novel are written with a solid competance, while other sections are nothing short of stunning."
-American Book Review
"A fine read of ecological concerns and what drives people to take up the cause."
-The Midwest Book Review
"A story so today that the actions that drive it could be online at the Huffington Post right now."
-The Greensboro News & Record
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- PublisherLivingston Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1604890738
- ISBN 13 9781604890730
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages295
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