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Salvation is a Homecoming

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This is quite a page turner. The author takes us from upstate New York to Africa (and then ...) in an unlikely but intriguing series of events. His descriptions of the settings bring them vividly to life, and his character development is more than sufficient to leave the reader caring about what happens next. Goldthwait does a particularly good job with the main and most intense relationship in the book (in the interest of spoiler avoidance, I'll not reveal more). When I finished the book, my first thought was that it should be made into a movie.

My lone criticism is that the book could have used a professional copy editor to cut down on typos and the rare but occasional lame sentence.

Finally, readers might wonder why someone is rating a self-published book as highly as this. Full disclosure: I'm not even an acquaintance of the author. I first heard of "Salvation is a Homecoming" when I received a Christmas letter in which a longtime friend of the author recommended the book. Rather skeptical, I bought it on Amazon and ended up more than pleasantly surprised.