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View submission: Best Nonfiction of 2022 - Voting Thread
The White Mosque, by Sofia Samatar. Its part travel/part history/part memoir. In the 1800s, a group of Mennonites who believed they knew when the End Times would begin went to Central Asia to build a settlement. In 2016, the author, who was raised Mennonite, goes on a guided tour tracing their steps. She reflects on the group, their legacy, and her own place in the Mennonite faith/culture as the daughter of a woman descending from early American Mennonites and a father who was a Mennonite convert from Somalia...
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