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The Door-To-Door Mormon Pest Control Salesman: A Novel, John Charles Gilmore
The Door-To-Door Mormon Pest Control Salesman: A Novel, John Charles Gilmore
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis engages readers in a story about contemporary Mormonism. It is a novel that follows a fictional Mormon man engaged in a quirky summer job: door-to-door sales. The Mormon characters in this novel encounter a collapsing Florida housing market that stalls their efforts at peddling pesticide, while the main character experiences serious doubts in his personal religious faith.
Though Mormons are a small fraction of the United States’ population, they have drawn considerable interest from the American public in recent years, in large part due to the success of the 2011 musical The Book of Mormon and the 2008 …