Book Description:
MISSING FAITH Faith Hopkins had it all; a loving family, close friends, a fianc , a Liberal Arts degree from Boston College, but God called her to do more with her life. So she joined the Peace Corps to save the world, and found happiness serving the poor until the day she disappeared in the jungles of Paraguay. Set amidst the political turmoil of Paraguay in the early 1980 s, Missing Faith casts the fates of Jes s, a Paraguayan journalist, and Eva Marie, a Peace Corps volunteer, together as they risk their lives to search for the missing Peace Corps volunteer by confronting repression of military dictatorship and their inner demons. Striving to find meaning in his life, Jes s grapples with the loss of religious belief and doubts about loving his wife. Desperate to escape the pain of her past, Eva Marie struggles to overcome the opiate of casual sex, and instead tries to give love one more chance. More than a suspense thriller, Missing Faith combines a volatile mix of sex, love, violence, freedom, dignity, and justice balanced by a strong dose of satire. A disparate conglomeration of characters, including priests, nuns, revolutionaries, indigenous tribal leaders, idealistic Americans, sadistic Paraguayan military, jaded American diplomats, and enduring campesinos, resemble the moral complexity of Graham Greene s Heart of the Matter and the sexual romp of self discovery in Paul Theroux s My Secret Life. Most of all, this tale is an extraordinary journey in search of faith as well as Faith.
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