by Orson Scott Card
(2018)
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
It began with a quarrel over which newborn should be the baby Jesus in the town’s Christmas pageant.
Decades later, two scientists arrive to study small-town genetic patterns, only to run up against the invisible walls that split the leading citizens into two congregations that can only be joined by love and forgiveness.
And maybe a little deception, because there might be some things that people just don’t need to know.