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Odysseys of the Saints is a fictional history of the Mormons. In it, five generations of one family experience the controversial and often bloody evolution of the Latter-day Saints from a persecuted cult to an affluent community with a mission to guide the world toward its own revelations. The characters include Ted Bailey, a young newsman sent to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846 to report on the Mormon exodus to the West. He meets George Wood, a devout Mormon who has left his faith after many years of sacrifice for it. Amelia Carter ventures west to Utah with her family, but finds her community embattled by the U.S. Government, and her faith tested when her husband marries three other wives. Anders Erickson, a Norwegian convert, becomes a missionary on a tiny island near Tahiti. His son-in-law, Frank, Amelia's great-grandson, becomes an FBI agent after World War II. Frank is distraught when his son Joshua is excommunicated from the Church for being gay.