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The novel is a portrait of small-town life in Godsfinger, Alberta, centering on Job Sunstrum, a young man who is an outsider in his rural farming community. Job takes over the family farm after his father's death, but he is lonely, overwhelmed by religious guilt, and finds solace only in his animals and the church women with whom he shares his baking. He possesses synesthesia, the ability to see sounds as colors and feel vibrations as solid forms, which further separates him from his neighbors. Job's tightly coiled life begins to fall apart when his brother and his family return to the farm, displacing him. When his closest friend is exposed as gay, Job is consumed with guilt, and even the comforting colors of his synesthesia disappear. Faced with life-altering changes, Job desperately seeks certainty by following a Pentecostal preacher named Jack Divine, but ultimately finds that true faith can be discovered in earthly experiences and from the most unlikely of sources.

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