![]() ![]() Kevin, the mayor, has been abandoned by his son Tom (who has joined the "Healing Hug movement" led by a charismatic speaker with a penchant for teenage Asian hotties), and also his wife Laurie, shacked up with a more mysterious cult, the "Guilty Remnant". Nora's husband and children were spirited away, and she now watches Spongebob Squarepants religiously. The novel opens three years after the Rapture, and the inhabitants of a small town called Mapleton are still trying to deal with it. It's too good a scenario to be left to pulpish evangelical thrillers, so Tom Perrotta has written a post-Rapture novel that poses the interesting question of whether a more literary, secular treatment of the theme, eschewing global battles against a devil incarnate, is inevitably also more boring. ![]() I n the mega-selling Left Behind novels, millions of Christians vanish in a puff of divine smoke called the Rapture, leaving a troubled world ripe for takeover by the Antichrist – who is, of course, secretary-general of the United Nations. ![]()
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