num_pages: 228
description: When Max and his wife, Melissa, come to the Navajo reservation in Arizona for a teaching job, nothing prepares them for the world they enter. Storms with hot winds, but no rain, blind travelers and coat everything in sand. At school, Max butts heads with the crusty principal, Miles Cavenaugh, and he makes powerful enemies when he uncovers a predator in the children’s midst. And at Church, where he is made branch president, Max finds powers outside the priesthood at work. When mysterious forces and tragedy take Max’s wife, then his daughter, fleeing the reservation appears to be the only escape. But Max learns that the reservation holds the key to his past and future, and he can only face them by going back. After two broken marriages, Max returns to the reservation to teach his final three years before retirement. A rekindled friendship leads to a relationship and Max’s excommunication. During his period of excommunication, Max sees one of his old Navajo friends die of old age, and his mourning and remorse combine to help him repent of his sins. Late one Christmas Eve, he receives a call from a family looking for their Navajo exchange student, who has returned to the reservation without permission. Max heads up to the mesa in a blinding snowstorm, facing great peril and the final challenge of his life.
language: English
title: Go In Beauty
titlecomplete: Go In Beauty
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Palmyra Press