![]() ![]() Their mission is to follow regular citizens around town, dressed in white, to remind them of the disappearance. Laurie is drawn toward a new religion, the Guilty Remnant, whose rules include a vow of silence, communal living, renunciation of family, friends, and material goods, and constant smoking. Laurie Garvey is shaken by the disappearance of her best friend’s daughter, and the fact that her son Tom has left college to work for the cult of the charismatic Holy Wayne. ![]() Though no one from this family of four has disappeared, each of their lives is shattered, and they struggle to remake themselves. ![]() The aftermath for the Garvey family is stark. The plot cycles around what happens to a regular family in the average suburb of Mapleton where "the invisible haze of stale grief and chronic bewilderment the air" in the wake of this cataclysm. Perrotta's last novel, The Abstinence Teacher, focused on the intersection of sex and religion in suburban America, and The Leftovers takes this idea further. ![]()
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