Publisher's Synopsis
Jupiter, Illinois is a town that needs jobs. Hope appears in the form of eccentric entrepreneur Elijah Harrod, who promises to revive the town by manufacturing a new line of electric vehicles there. In this provocative book, the prospect of the town's renaissance intersects with several deeply personal stories. The mayor Frank Devine struggles with guilt over having an affair while his wife succumbs to a terrible disease. Father Thomas Grady must decide between the Catholic Church and a woman with whom he has fallen in love. Dave Mills hopes to find meaning through trying to unionize workers at the electric vehicles plant. The novel explores the topics of love and sin set against a backdrop of social and economic change in a Midwestern town.
