everend Thomas Mosher, the young black pastor of the Pilgrims Congregational Church in W, Massachusetts, has vanished. Does the rumoured affair between the pastor and Bethany Caruso, unhappily married mother of two, provide an explanation? Did Thomass final sermon, The Shapes of Love, contain a clue? Did the congregations white, liberal parishioners drive him away? Can people justdisappear? The Faithful Narrative of a Pastors Disappearance is a bold, blisteringly funny and ultimately haunting satire of modern materialism and a thoughtful, bittersweet portrait of the modern North American soul.