American Gospel by Lin Enger
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What happens when a self-proclaimed prophet predicts that the world will end in two weeks? That is the inciting incident for Lin Enger’s American Gospel, a 251-page novel set in August 1974, the same month Richard Nixon resigned the presidency following the Watergate scandal. The primary setting of the novel…