City Of Brick And Shadow, by Tim Wirkus

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"Intimate, mysterious, magical...as accomplished and compelling as anything I've read in recent years." --T.C. Boyle, award-winning author of The Harder They Come

"Beautifully conceived and beautifully written...rendered with a strong, confident voice that is so rare in a first novel." --Percival Everett, award-winning author of Assumption

Already struggling to keep their tiny congregation afloat, two Mormon missionaries stationed in the dangerous Latin American neighborhood of Vila Barbosa suspect the worst when Marco Aurelio, a man they recently baptized, disappears from a crowded street market. When the neighborhood's corrupt police force shows no interest, Elder Toronto and Elder Schwartz decide to investigate Marco Aurelio's disappearance themselves.

Breaking mission rule after mission rule, the elders doggedly pursue any clues that might lead them to their friend. As they interview the people who knew him--his short-tempered, bodybuilding brother; his gun-toting ex-wife; his mercurial former business partner--a tangled portrait emerges of an enigmatic con artist in over his head. At the edges of the investigation lurks a shadowy, mythical figure known only as the Argentine, a man who poses an increasingly dire threat to the two young missionaries as they plunge recklessly forward.

Tim Wirkus' City of Brick and Shadow is a fantastically fun ride, recasting the classic buddy-cop dynamic in a pair of hapless young missionaries; a gripping and unconventional mystery along the lines of The Yiddish Policemen's Union or Motherless Brooklyn.

City Of Brick And Shadow, by Tim Wirkus

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2287394 in Books
• Published on: 2015-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.44" h x .88" w x 5.50" l, .80 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

City Of Brick And Shadow, by Tim Wirkus

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"The narrative flows simply...interspersed with the fascinating...folklore describing The Argentine's reign in Vila Barbosa.... An absorbing mental exercise...for the most jaded armchair detectives...guaranteed to spark delicious book-group debates." --Booklist, Starred Review

"Tim Wirkus' City of Brick and Shadow is a brilliant debut novel.... Wirkus...emerges here as a formidable talent--the kind of writer who...combines wicked verbal felicity with an amused eye for human behavior." --The Daily Pilot

"Deftly written, smoothly complex, exceptionally well crafted...solidly entertaining.... .Establishes Tim Wirkus as a novelist of exceptional talent and remarkable storytelling skills. Very highly recommended for personal reading lists and community library collections." --Midwest Book Review

"[This] captivating tale is wonderfully written, with plenty of familiar missionary banter mingled with the young men's relentless and at times dangerous quest for answers." --UtahValley360

About the Author

Tim Wirkus is a doctoral candidate in the University of Southern California's creative writing and literature program. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Subtropics, Cream City Review, Weird Fiction Review, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. His novella Sandy Downs won the 2013 Quarterly West novella contest. This is his first novel.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Amazing Storytelling and Characters By Jon Ogden City of Brick and Shadow tells the story of two missionaries who are stationed in a violent Latin American city. When they discover that a man they recently baptized has gone missing, they suspect the worst and do everything they can to find him.The storytelling is consistently gripping, and the puzzles that unfold throughout the narrative are simultaneously enjoyable and complex. As a result, the book opens itself up for repeat readings and smart discussion. I'm still teasing out all the meanings behind the final events.In addition, all the characters are fully human. Wirkus avoids limiting the missionaries to their religious identity. They're just people stuck in a hard situation. That's how any good story in the humanities should be, and Wirkus pulls it off exceptionally well.Most of all, though, I enjoyed this book because the storytelling pulled me straight through to the end. It's been a long time since I've read something this engaging.One more thing: The scene with the parrot will haunt me for years.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The best kind of metaphysical noir fiction By Andy Ross Tim Wirkus's debut novel is both surprising and true. A refreshing kind of metaphysical noir, "City of Brick and Shadow," the story of two heroically pedestrian Mormon missionaries trying--despite the logic that suggests doing otherwise--to discover the reason for the disappearance of one member of their tiny congregation in the fictional slum of Vila Barbosa in an unnamed South American country is as engaging as any crime fiction I've read recently. While much contemporary crime fiction offers the experience of frantically turning pages until coming to some kind of marginally satisfying revelation, Wirkus's novel instead works within that convention to illustrate the perils of such kinds of epistemological projects. In short, the big pay-off of this novel, is not an answer, but rather a question: what does it cost to know?I served as an LDS missionary in the early 2000s. When I look back on that experience I sometimes catch glimpses of the somewhat odd mindset that develops in some missionaries, a worldview that results in behaviors like the wearing of garishly ugly ties, collecting and retelling apocryphal stories, and proudly hanging out with gang members or drug dealers. That mindset, which of course doesn't develop in all missionaries (nor need it), is on display on the pages of Wirkus's novel in a way that I haven't encountered before. In short, these characters and their curious attitudes about the physical and spiritual universe are both strange and humane, tragic and comic.I recommend this book to readers who enjoy books both engrossing and challenging or who don't mind being frustrated by the choices of both character and author. Darkly comic, empathic and critical, this novel is one worth trying to know.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Hope this writer has a long career By Johnny T. Townsend The novel by Tim Wirkus, City of Brick and Shadow, is a riveting tale of two missionaries in a sweeping Brazilian slum looking for a missing congregant they had recently baptized. All the characters are well-realized, from the unhappy local Mormons to the woman at the lanchonete to the mysterious Argentine, a kind of Satan figure who rules over Vila Barbosa. Further, the level of description is quite vivid, helping the reader feel like an unwilling visitor to the slum all along the way. In some respects, the mystery is pretty banal—a petty con artist is probably killed—but Wirkus raises several philosophical issues as well, all without making the story too heavy. Ultimately, the book raises a very Mormon question—what is the purpose of life, and what are we willing to pay to fulfill that purpose. The two main characters, the missionaries, form a pair almost like Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, the main character being a slightly dull Watson dragged along by his energetic and condescending senior companion. And yet it’s much sadder than any story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The climax is surprising and shocking, but the conclusion, not to give too much away, left me feeling quite unsettled and more than a little depressed. But that’s what good literature does, it makes one think and question and leave thinking things he or she hadn’t thought much about before, even if those thoughts aren’t always sunny. This is the kind of accomplishment Mormon literature should strive for. We don’t need to be told everything is wonderful for those who follow the Lord. We need to see life, and ourselves, as the imperfect creations we are, so that we can answer those difficult questions posed so clearly by this extremely well-written story.

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